Brinkley Questions Chapter 9
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Brinkley Chapter 9 Guiding Questions 1. What were the general characteristics of ?Jacksonian Democracy,? its philosophy, and its practice? 2. What role did the western states play in the growing democratization of American politics? 3. What groups were excluded from this widening of political opportunity? Why? 4. How did the spoils system fit into Jackson's "democratic" plans? 5. What was the effect of this growth of democracy? How did it change, or not change, the American political system? What is its significance? 6. How has the debate over Jacksonian Democracy focused not only on Andrew Jackson but on the American society in the Jacksonian era as well? 7. What was the dilemma faced by John C. Calhoun, and what factors gave rise to it?
