Reading Guide for Week Nine
Text: Divine, Chapter 10: 3/23/00
Special Topics: Art and Architecture in
the Age of Enterprise
The Elections of 1824 and 1828 and Government's Role in the Age of Jackson
Answer one of the following text questions:
Answer at least two of the following primary source
In what ways was the United States a land of equal
opportunity by the 1830s? In what ways was it not? Explain.
Did President Andrew Jackson live up to his billing
as a man of the "people"? Why? Why not?
To what extent was sectionalism a problem in the
age of Jackson?
How different from each other were the political
parties of the Jacksonian era? Did they give voters a real choice
between contrasting philosophies of government?
Jackson to Martin Van Buren, January 13, 1833, Washington, D.C.
Primary Source Questions:
Who was Martin Van Buren and why did President
Andrew Jackson write him this letter at this time?
Why was the President angry with some of the leaders
of South Carolina?
What does this letter tell you about the history
of the relationship between the federal government and the states?
What does it tell you about President Jackson's
sytle of executive leadership?
Do you think there was a hidden agenda in the