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Part 1 - Ideas/themes to know and include in your notes:
Dorr Rebellion
Tocqueville and Democracy in America
Spoils system
Nullification Crisis
"Five Civilized Tribes"
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
Seminole War
The Bank War
Taney court
Democrats and Whigs
Martin Van Buren
Panic of 1837
Log Cabin Campaign
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Part 2 - Short Answer Question: COMPLETE SENTENCES ONLY - Answer all parts of the question in full. 3/4ths page minimum response.
How did participation in political campaigns and elections in the United States change between 1815 and 1840? What events or people influenced these changes?
Part 3 - Vocabulary: These words are from the chapter, class readings, or discussion and will be used in context or need to be defined on the weekly chapter quiz. https://www.merriam-webster.com/
Abrogate
Antipathy
Denounce
Disenfranchise
Electorate
Enfranchise
Franchise
Ingratiate
Juncture
Paramount
Sanction
Specie
Stifle
Stranglehold
Definitions: Fill in the correct word that matches the definition listed.
1.____________________(v.) To deliberately gain favor or favorable acceptance; endear
2.____________________(v.) To pronounce- especially publicly- to be blameworthy or evil: censure
3.____________________(n.) A strong feeling of dislike: enmity
4.____________________(v.) To abolish by authoritative action: annul
5.____________________(v.) To admit to the privileges of a citizen and especially to the right of suffrage
6.____________________(v.) To deprive of a legal right, especially to deprive of the right to vote
7.____________________(n.) A constitutional or statutory right or privilege: the right to vote
8.____________________(n.) A body of people entitled to vote
9.____________________(n.) A critical point of time: crisis
10.___________________(adj.) Superior to all others: principal
11.___________________(v.) To make valid or binding usually by a formal procedure (such as ratification)
12.___________________(v.) To suppress, curb, or withhold
13.___________________(n.) Money in coin: gold or silver
14.___________________(n.) A force or influence that chokes or suppresses freedom of movement or expression
Completing the Sentence: Choose the word from the word bank above that best completes each of the following sentences. Write the correct word or form of the word in the space provided.
15. The high level of voter participation was only partly the result of an expanded ______________________.
16. Most states restricted the ______________________ to white male property owners or taxpayers or both.
17. The Dartmouth College case and other decisions, ruled that states had no right to ______________________, or revoke, contracts.
18. Jackson’s ______________________ toward the Native Americans had a special intensity because of his own earlier experiences leading military campaigns against tribes along the southern border.
19. Jackson’s first attack was on the entrenched office holders in the federal government, whom he bitterly ______________________.
20. The Bank question then emerged as the ______________________ issue of the 1832 election, just as Clay had hoped.
21. Hard money policies support a ______________________ standard, typically implemented with paper money backed by gold or silver.
22. Once the controversial Removal bill passed Jackson sought a way to ______________________ public dissent and encourage all the tribes to quickly move West.
23. During Jackson’s presidency, the United States evolved from a republic—in which only landowners could vote—to a mass democracy, in which white men of all socioeconomic classes were ______________________.
24. With Senate ratification, the Webster-Ashburton treaty received the proper ______________________ to resolve the Maine border dispute.
25. Jackson fought the elitist Bank of the U.S.’s tight control, or______________________, on credit for the sake of farmers and small businesses.
26. Van Buren befriended the Eatons, whom Jackson had championed, and thus ______________________ himself with the president.
27. New York effectively ______________________ free black men in by requiring that “men of color” possess property valuing more than $250—an exorbitant amount at the time.
28. At this ______________________, the House Tariff Bill was still pending, so Mr. Clay brought forward his famous Compromise Tariff to settle the issue.
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