The following questions should be answered by Wednesday, November 14, 2012 12:00a.m. Students, essay questions should be answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and paste or write in someone else's words. Content information should be accurate and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1) question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be the 1st or 2nd sentence). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before submitting your essay questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays by Friday, November 16, 2012 12:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3 sentences in length. he comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10 points per comment).Your overall grade will come from Mrs. Ladd.
Students remember select one question from the following and answer it in two (2) DETAILED paragraphs on the comment section of the blog:
1. How did TWO of the following contribute to changes in the political process during the Jacksonian era?
Universal white male suffrage
Popular Election of the President
Spoils System
2. To what extent was President Andrew Jackson one of the nation's most effective presidents?
How did TWO of the following contribute to changes in the political process during the Jacksonian era?
ReplyDeleteThe Spoil System wasn't made by the President or the department heads, but by the Congress and political leaders. They had a theory called "Rotation" this appointive officers to practice political advantage. The people wanted jobs
and they went to the White House for help. This happen on Jackson's Inaugural Day. In 1837, Van Buren watch Andrew Jackson political, so he ban find a method to removal and appointments, but it back fired on Buren. After his plan came through, it became a shortage of $210,000 from the collector of Port Of New York during Andrew Jackson 1st terms. Buren moved to Europe after taking $1,250,000 of the Government money. After the revolution most retained some property requirement, this mean that this prevented underclass people to vote. Industrial wage labor, became an issue. Later year the property requirement was abolished, the economic disappeared as people got their citizenship. By 1840 90% white adult men had the rights to vote, during this time period white women couldn't vote doesn't matter if they were poor or wealthy and African American.
Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory rolled into Washington with such force that an era is named after him. Ending years of what he (and many Americans) considered to be elitist government, Jackson threw open the doors of power to the people, and remade the executive branch in the process. Previous to Jackson, Presidents tended to work with Congress to shape the national agenda. Jackson determined that he would have his way in spite of Congress, or the courts for that matter. Jackson distrusted big government, and he hated debt. The two ideas combined as Jackson became the only American president to completely pay off the national debt. Jackson called for the abolishment of the Electoral College and encouraged the regular replacement of government bureaucrats with his loyalists, and punished those who were suspect. The “spoils system,” in many ways, lives on today. Jackson came into office planning on ejecting all Indians living east of the Mississippi to what is today Oklahoma, resulting in the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which even the Supreme Court could not stop. Hundreds of millions of acres in the American South were soon free for development. Jackson also personally destroyed the Second National Bank of the United States, which he considered a bastion of privilege and corruption. When South Carolina, angered at tariffs that favored northern manufacturing, began to speak openly of secession and nullification, Jackson made it policy that the state would remain loyal by force, if necessary. South Carolina opted to compromise instead. At the end of his second term, hating banks and paper money to the end, Jackson enacted his “specie circular” that forced all government lands to be purchased in coin, which he thought would end speculation and leave the land to common people. What it did instead was help to hasten an economic depression (but he would leave Martin Van Buren to wrestle with that). The sheer force of Jackson’s dynamic personality defined a generation and rippled across the American political landscape for decades to come.
ReplyDeleteTo what extent was President Andrew Jackson one of the nation's most effective presidents?
ReplyDeletePresident Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States.Jackson became the 7th president with 54% of the popular vote and 178 out of 261 electoral votes. He was a Democratic.He served as a major general in the War of 1812. Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans.President Andrew Jackson focused on the government, land expansion and war.
In 1835 President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act moved Indians or Native Americans out from there land which moved them West.Andrew Jackson replaced many government officials with the "spoils system". The spoils system was a method of appointing officials to the government of the United States of America. Jackson cover a wide rule of ideas during his presidency. Andrew Jackson was a very effective President.
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ReplyDeleteJackson had many accomplishments that made him one of the most effective presidents. From the abolishment of the Electoral College, the replacement of government bureaucrats, he was completely paid off the national debt, the Indian removal act of 1830, his specie circular and many more of his accomplishments.
ReplyDeleteJackson ended years of what America considered to be elitist government, Jackson threw open the doors of power to the people, and also remade the executive branch in the process. The absolute force of Jackson’s vigorous personality defined a generation and rippled across the American political landscape for years to come. When South Carolina angered at tariffs that favored northern manufacturing, Jackson made a rule that the states would remain loyal. Jackson began to speak willingly of secession and nullification. Jackson called for the abolishment of the Electoral College. Jackson encouraged the regular replacement of government bureaucrats with his loyalists, and punished those who were suspect. Jackson became the only American president to completely pay off the national debt.
Jackson came into office planning on ejecting all Indians living east of the Mississippi to what is today Oklahoma, which resulted in the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Jackson personally destroyed the Second National Bank of the United States, because he considered it to be a bastion of privilege and corruption. Jackson hated banks and paper money so Jackson ratified the Specie circular of 1836 that forced all government lands to be purchased in coin, which he thought would end speculation and leave the land to common people. What it did instead was push America into an economic depression. Jackson also ratified the Tariff of 1832.This tariff was to act as remedy for the conflict created by the Tariff of 1828.
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1. How did TWO of the following contribute to changes in the political process during the Jacksonian era?
ReplyDeleteUniversal white male suffrage
Popular Election of the President
Spoils System
There were many contributions to the change of the political process during the Jacksonian era. Two of the main contributions were universal white male suffrage and the Spoils System. Universal male suffrage was when all white men were allowed to vote no matter what. It made it to where white men didn't have to be wealthy or elite to vote. This was the first change in respect to voting. Black men and women were the next to gain suffrage, or voting rights, in later years.
The Spoils System is the practice of political party giving public office to its supporters. This is basically the act of a winning candidate giving loyal supporters or close friends and relatives a place in a public office. This caused quite a few problems because these friends, family members, and loyal supporters weren't always qualified for the positions they were appointed to. This resulted in the placement of certain rules, regulations, and requirements on specific official jobs or positions. These requirements helped restrict politicians ability to appoint friends into public office jobs.
To what extent was President Andrew Jackson one of the nation's most effective presidents?
ReplyDeleteAndrew Jackson was known ass the most effective president because of all of his accomplishments as president. He not only came up with great ideas to improve the country but his plans actually came through. He introduced the political philosophy of Jacksonian Democracy.This allowed the "common man" to vote and have a say in the government that they are ruled by. He also followed the Spoil System which gave jobs to people after the victory of a presidential election.
Another known accomplishment of Jackson was the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Nat Turner's rebellion was another one of his accomplishments.
To what extent was President Andrew Jackson one of the nation's most effective presidents?
ReplyDeleteAndrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815).Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because of his toughness and aggressive personality; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents.Elected president in 1828, Jackson supported a small and limited federal government. He strengthened the power of the presidency, which he saw as spokesman for the entire population, as opposed to Congressmen from a specific small district.
Jackson resigned from the Senate in October 1825, but continued his quest for the Presidency. In January 1835, Jackson paid off the entire national debt, the only time in U.S. history that has been accomplished.Jackson repeatedly called for the abolition of the Electoral College by constitutional amendment in his annual messages to Congress as President. When Jackson became President, he implemented the theory of rotation in office by political appointments, declaring it "a leading principle in the republican creed.
The spoils system wasn't made by the president or the department heads but by political leaders and congress. They had a theory call ROTATION this appointed officers to practice political advantages. In 1837 Van Buren watch Andrew Jackson political so he can find a method to remove and appointments. After his plan came through it became a shortage of $210,000 from the collector of the port in New York during Jackson 1st term.
ReplyDeleteThe Universal Male Suffrage & the Spoil System changed the political system. First The Universal Male Suffrage changed the way the system worked. It proved that the common man can work in the government's office.This gave the common man more power. The way Jefferson removed the more skilled workers provide proof that the common man could work in the office.
ReplyDeleteThe Spoil System was a system which a large political organization appointed federal jobs to the loyalists. This means it allowed men to buy their way into office resulted in a corrupted government office. There was no morals, people that wanted the government to improve was against the Spoil System.
To what extent was President Andrew Jackson one of the nation's most effective president?
ReplyDeleteAndrew Jackson was the champion of democracy. In his late teens, he studied law for two years. He later became a young lawyer in Tennessee. Jackson was later known as Old Hickory. The reason people called him that because of his aggressive personality. He strengthen the role as president. Jackson was strongly against the national bank, he vetoed the renewal of its charter and ensured its collapse.