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Guided Reading: Jacksonian Democracy
U.S. History
Directions: Answer the questions that follow as you read Chapter 3
Section2.
Balancing Nationalism and Sectionalism
1. What was the American System and who supported it?
2. What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
The Election of 1824
1. How was John Quincy Adams able to win the presidency without coming
in first in the electoral vote in 1824?
2. How did electoral politics become more democratic in the 1820s and
1830s?
Jackson Emerges
3. From which groups did Andrew Jackson receive the most support?
4. Describe the “spoils system” created by Andrew Jackson?
5. What was the nullification crisis and how was it resolved?
6. Why did Jackson declare “war” on the bank and what effect did that
have on the American political system?
1. List the key objects in the cartoon and
describe what each represents.
Object
Symbolizes
2. What issue or event does the cartoon deal
with?
3. What is the cartoon’s message?
4. What groups would agree/disagree with the
cartoon’s message? Why?
1
List the key objects in the cartoon and
describe what each represents.
Object
Symbolizes
2. What issue or event does the cartoon deal
with?
3. What is the cartoon’s message?
4. What groups would agree/disagree with the
cartoon’s message? Why?