J. Kelly Robison

The Age of Jackson

  1. Introduction
  2. From Tennessee to the White House
    1. The 1824 Election
      1. The "Corrupt Bargain"
    2. The 1828 Election
    3. President Jackson
  3. The Rise of Mass Politics
    1. The Expanding Electorate
      1. Extension of Voting Rights
      2. Imperfect Democracy
      3. Expansion of the Vote
    2. Legitimization of Parties
  4. The Jacksonian Presidency
    1. Nullification
      1. Calhoun and Nullification
      2. The Rise of Martin Van Buren
      3. The Webster-Hayne Debate
      4. The Nullification Crisis
    2. The Bank War
      1. The 2nd Bank of the US
      2. Hostility
      3. Jackson Kills the Bank
  5. The Second Party System
    1. The Whigs
    2. The Democrats
  6. Conclusions

Study terms:

Corrupt Bargain John Quincy Adams Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson Dorr War expansion of suffrage
Martin Van Buren Peggy Eaton Affair John C. Calhoun
nullification Webster-Hayne Debate Nullification Crisis
the Bank War Nicolas Biddle Spoils System
Party Convention Anti-Masonic Party Whigs
Second Party System

Study Questions:

The Age of Jackson has often been called the "Era of the Common Man." Why is this so? How true is this statement?

Evaluate the presidency of Andrew Jackson in terms of political ideology. How true was he to his beliefs?

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