J.S.  Bassett, Life of Andrew Jackson.

J.W.  Burgess, The Middle Period.

H. Lodge, Daniel Webster.

W. Macdonald, Jacksonian Democracy (American Nation Series).

Ostrogorski, Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, Vol. 
II.

C.H.  Peck, The Jacksonian Epoch.

C. Schurz, Henry Clay.

=Questions=

1.  By what devices was democracy limited in the first days of our Republic?

2.  On what grounds were the limitations defended?  Attacked?

3.  Outline the rise of political democracy in the United States.

4.  Describe three important changes in our political system.

5.  Contrast the Presidents of the old and the new generations.

6.  Account for the unpopularity of John Adams’ administration.

7.  What had been the career of Andrew Jackson before 1829?

8.  Sketch the history of the protective tariff and explain the theory underlying it.

9.  Explain the growth of Southern opposition to the tariff.

10.  Relate the leading events connected with nullification in South Carolina.

11.  State Jackson’s views and tell the outcome of the controversy.

12.  Why was Jackson opposed to the bank?  How did he finally destroy it?

13.  The Whigs complained of Jackson’s “executive tyranny.”  What did they mean?

14.  Give some of the leading events in Clay’s career.

15.  How do you account for the triumph of Harrison in 1840?

16.  Why was Europe especially interested in America at this period?  Who were some of the European writers on American affairs?

=Research Topics=

=Jackson’s Criticisms of the Bank.=—­Macdonald, Documentary Source Book, pp. 320-329.

=Financial Aspects of the Bank Controversy.=—­Dewey, Financial History of the United States, Sections 86-87; Elson, History of the United States, pp. 492-496.

=Jackson’s View of the Union.=—­See his proclamation on nullification in Macdonald, pp. 333-340.

=Nullification.=—­McMaster, History of the People of the United States, Vol.  VI, pp. 153-182; Elson, pp. 487-492.

=The Webster-Hayne Debate.=—­Analyze the arguments.  Extensive extracts are given in Macdonald’s larger three-volume work, Select Documents of United States History, 1776-1761, pp. 239-260.

=The Character of Jackson’s Administration.=—­Woodrow Wilson, History of the American People, Vol.  IV, pp. 1-87; Elson, pp. 498-501.

=The People in 1830.=—­From contemporary writings in Hart, American History Told by Contemporaries, Vol.  III, pp. 509-530.

=Biographical Studies.=—­Andrew Jackson, J.Q.  Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, J.C.  Calhoun, and W.H.  Harrison.

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