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APUS: Jacksonian Era Vocabulary and Concepts

Directions: Identify the following about each of the following parties. Who made them up – what kinds of people? What did they stand for? How important were they?

Whigs

Democrats

Locofocos

Vocabulary

Caucus System; National Nominating Conventions

Kitchen Cabinet

Maysville Road – and the reasons for Jackson’s veto

Specie Circular

Panic of 1837 (Causes, government action)

Dorr’s Rebellion (RI)

Independent Treasury Plan

Pre-emption Act (1841)

Tariff of 1842

Orestes Brownson

For the following books/writings, what were the authors’ main points, then a paragraph – do you agree or disagree with their conclusions? Explain

Democracy in America: Alexis de Tocqueville

Henry David Thoreau: Walden, “On Civil Disobedience”

Margaret Fuller “The Dial”