Question 1

What were the causes of the Panic of 1837? Could this downturn have been prevented,or was it evidence of the problems inherent in a free-market economy? What solutions were proposed to alleviate the crisis?

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Question 2

Discuss the emergence of the two-party system.Was this political system inevitable for America? Why or why not? Why were multiple parties unable to endure? Which parties seem to have lasting power in the 1820s to 1840 and why?

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Question 3

What basic assumptions are contained in John C.Calhoun's doctrine of nullification? Is the doctrine of nullification compatible with a correct federal union? If it had become standard,would nullification have meant a breakup of the Union sooner or later?

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Question 4

Would it have been better if Jackson had used military force to crush the South Carolina nullifiers? Might such action have put an end to the whole idea of nullification and secession by "strangling the serpent of secession in the cradle," as the text states?

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Question 5

The slavery issue had been at least temporarily set aside with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.Yet how did the question of slavery simmer not far beneath the surface of American society in the Age of Jackson?

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Question 6

What role did moral and religious concerns play in politics during the Age of Jackson (e.g.,in the Anti-Masonic party,in controversy over Indian policy,and in the issue of Texas)? Which of the major parties seemed most sympathetic to such concerns,and why?

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Question 7

How does the election of 1840 "illustrate the shortcomings of democratic politics"?

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Question 8

How did the two mass parties of the Jacksonian era,despite their flaws,each reflect the deep spirit of American democracy (and the legacy of Jeffersonian republicanism)? Are such parties necessary to the effective functioning of democracy?

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Question 9

Andrew Jackson usually appears high up on the list of great American presidents.Does he deserve to be there? What are the criteria for being considered a great president?

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Question 10

Was the Texas Revolution inevitable once American settlers were allowed into "northern Mexico"? Were Mexicans correct to see the Texas revolt as really an expression of American expansionism?

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Question 11

Is it fair to say that in 1840 the Whigs gave the Democrats a taste of their own political medicine? What specific methods and tactics did the Whigs borrow from the Jacksonian Democrats?

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Quiz 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840