The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

250 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy at the White House, but the old puritan may have been equally, if unconsciously, motivated by ...

President of All the People 251 and merchants. In this sense he was profoundly democratic. He believed in equality of opportunit ...

252 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy expense of the states. Basically he was a Jeffersonian; he favored a “frugal,” constitutional ...

Jackson’s Bank Veto 253 had gotten it on a sound footing, the Bank of the United States had flourished. In 1823 Cheves was repla ...

254 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy either to approve the recharter bill or to veto it (which would give candidate Clay a lively ...

Indian Removals 255 general’s advice. Pressure on Biddle mounted swiftly, and in July 1834 he suddenly reversed his policy and b ...

256 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy Tocqueville was particularly moved by the sight of an old woman whom he described in a letter ...

Indian Removals 257 ATLANTIC OCEAN Lake Okeechobee G u l f o f M e x i c o GEORGIA FLORIDA Kanapaha Prairie Camp Izard Okeechobe ...

258 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy View along the East Battery, Charleston by Samuel Bernard (1831). Many whites feared a slave ...

Boom and Bust 259 legislature then authorized the raising of an army and appropriated money to supply it with weapons. Jackson q ...

260 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy $4.9 million; and in 1835, $14.8 million. In 1836 it rose to $24.9 million, and the governmen ...

during the Jacksonian era, which showed that the rich grew richer and the poor, poorer. Robert Remini (1984), on the other hand, ...

262 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy approach economic problems from a broadly national perspective also joined in large numbers. ...

The Log Cabin Campaign 263 promptly spent, also stimulated the revival. Late in 1838 the banks resumed specie payments. But in 1 ...

264 After returning to Tennessee, he was elected magistrate for Lawrence County, a rough frontier district. Again, his farm fail ...

After seeing others make money off his celebrity, Crockett published several books of his own. In 1833 he was reelected to Congr ...

266 Chapter 9 Jacksonian Democracy 1828 Andrew Jackson is elected president 1829 Crowds cause chaos at Jackson’s White House ina ...

Chapter Review 267 Specie Circular An edict, issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836, obliging purchasers of public land to d ...

Who is your family? 268 Fears about a “crisis” in the family have generated head- lines since the early 1900s, when divorce rate ...

10 The Making of Middle-Class America The Making of Middle-Class America CONTENTS ■Joseph Moore and His Family(1839), by Erastus ...