Unit 5 Age of Jackson

Jacksonian Democracy

• Student can explain the impact of the election of Andrew Jackson, including expanded suffrage.

• Student understands the:

  • development of American political parties

  • protective tariffs, taxation, and the banking system

  • John Quincy Adams (congressional conflicts and compromises)

Conflicts and Compromise

• Student can explain constitutional issues arising over the issue of states' rights, including the Nullification Crisis.

• Student understands the:

  • impact of slavery on different sections of the U.S.

  • protective tariffs and their impact on sections of the U.S. before the Civil War

  • banking system

  • congressional conflicts and compromises prior to the Civil War

Removal and Resettlement of the Cherokee Indians

• Student can explain the reasons for the removal and resettlement of Cherokee Indians during the Jacksonian era.

  • Indian Removal Act

  • Worcester v. Georgia

  • Trail of Tears

• Student understands the:

  • ways conflicts between people from various racial, ethnic, and religious groups were addressed