CHAPTER 9 – Jacksonian America

1. THE RISE OF MASS POLITICS

a. Expanding Democracy

b. Tocqueville and Democracy in America

c. The Legitimization of Party

d. “President of the Common Man”

2. “OUR FEDERAL UNION”

a. Calhoun and Nullification

b. The Rise of Van Buren

c. The Webster-Hayne Debate

d. The Nullification Crisis

3. THE REMOVAL OF THE INDIANS

a. White Attitudes Toward the Tribes

b. The Black Hawk War

c. The “Five Civilization Tribes”

d. Trails of Tears

e. The Meaning of Removal

4. JACKSON AND THE BANK WAR

a. Biddle’s Institution

b. The “Monster” Destroyed

c. The Taney Court

5. THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICAN POLITICS

a. Democrats and Whigs

b. Van Buren and the Panic of 1837

c. The Log Cabin Campaign

d. The Frustration of the Whigs

e. Whig Diplomacy

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ....

• Supreme Court
• market economy
• regional political and economic loyalties
• American Indians
• Manifest Destiny
• Free-labor manufacturing economy
• slave-based agriculture
• abolitionists
• States' rights
• nullification
• racist stereotyping
• Southern defense of slavery

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Andrew Jackson
• Anti-Masonry and Anti-Mason Party
• Aroostook War
• Bank War
• Caroline Affair
• Daniel Webster
• Door Rebellion
• Five Civilized Tribes
• Indian Territory
• John C. Calhoun
• John Tyler
• Martin Van Buren
• Nicholas Biddle
• Henry Clay
• tariff
• nullification
• Panic of 1837
• Removal Act
• Roger B. Taney
• Seminole War
• Specie circular
• spoils system
• Trail of Tears
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• Webster-Hayne debate
• Whigs
• William Henry Harrison
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• Nullification Crisis
• internal improvements

African American political conventions article

Distant Drums (1951)

The Lady's President (1953)

Seminole (1953)