US History

2.2 Launching the New Republic

Presearch Four: Andrew Jackson and the Growth of American Democracy

"Cupidity has fastened its eye upon our lands and our homes and is seeking by force and by every variety of oppression and wrong to expel us from our lands and our homes and to tear from us all that has become endeared to us. In our distress we have appealed to the judiciary of the United States, where our rights have been solemnly established. [Worchester vs Georgia] We have appealed to the Executive of the United States [Andrew Jackson] to protect those rights according to the obligation of treaties and the injunctions of the laws. But this appeal to the Executive has been made in vain.”

-Appeal of Cherokee nation to United States Congress, 1834

Objectives:

·  Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president

·  Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny and the territorial acquisitions that spanned numerous decades.

·  Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine.

·  Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.

Essential questions:

1.  How was Andrew Jackson’s election and presidency viewed by the rich and well-born? By the common people? By Native Americans? By supporters of states’ rights?

2.  Why was Andrew Jackson opposed to a National Bank?

3.  What was the spoils system? Why did Jackson favor it, and why was he criticized for doing so?

4.  How did Jacksonian democracy give more governmental power to the common people?

5.  Why did many Americans, including Jackson, believe that Native Americans needed to be removed from their lands? How did Jackson respond to the 1831 Supreme Court ruling that Indians had a right to their lands?

6.  What was the nullification crisis? How did it demonstrate the growing split between the North and South?

7.  What were the details and outcomes of the treaties negotiated between the first four presidents and Indian nations?

8.  What events and ideas connected to Andrew Jackson led to patterns of change in the United States? How did things stay the same?

All work should be recorded and filed in your ISN: Launching the New Republic. Your ISN is due 2/14 on my desk by 3pm.

This week:

Due / Points
In ISN
2/5 / 50 / 1)  Read Chapter 14 in The United States Through Industrialism, and take 3-Column notes on the entire chapter or complete the workbook pages.
2/5 / 50 / 2)  Read Chapter Seven in A Young People’s History of the United States. Write a one-page reflection using at least three response starters.
2/7 / 10 / 3)  Quiz on Chapter 14 & Vocabulary 13/14
2/7 / 20 / 4)  Final Project Proposal Due – I will go over this in class 2/5.
TBA / - / 5)  Final Project on “Launching the New Republic” Due.