Section 2 Guided Reading, pp 191-200 As you read the chapter, jot down your in the middle column. Consider your notes to be elaborations on the Objectives and Main Ideas presented in the left column. When you finish the section, analyze what you read by answering the question in the right hand column. Jacksonian Democracy 1. pp 191-194 Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis The United States Jacksonian Democracy… Read the first paragraph on page 191. List the three developed the competing viewpoints of first modern mass The Rise of a Democratic Society… Jackson and the emergence of democracy and popular politics. celebrated a new national culture, while 1. Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them. Politics of the Common 2. Man… The nation’s transformation to a more participatory democracy was 3. accompanied by continued debates over Universal Male Suffrage… federal power, the relationship between the federal government In what ways did Jacksonian and the states, the Democracy differ from the of different Party Nominating authority original republicanism of the branches of the federal Framer’s generation? government, and the rights and 1. responsibilities of Conventions… Popular individual citizens. 2. Election of the President… 3. Two-Party System… To what extent were these differences signs of improving Rise of Trial Parties… American democracy? More Elected Offices… One piece of evidence supporting your answer: Popular Campaigning… One piece of evidence supporting the opposing view: Spoils System and Rotation of Officeholders…
Section 2 Guided Reading, pp 191-200 As you read the chapter, jot down your in the middle column. Consider your notes to be elaborations on the Objectives and Main Ideas presented in the left column. When you finish the section, analyze what you read by answering the question in the right hand column. 1. Jacksonian Democracy pp 191-194 Key Concepts & Main Ideas Notes Analysis The United States developed the first modern mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them. The nation’s transformation to a more participatory democracy was accompanied by continued debates over federal power, the relationship between the federal government and the states, the authority of different branches of the federal government, and the rights and responsibilities of individual citizens. Jacksonian Democracy… The Rise of a Democratic Society… Politics of the Common Man… Universal Male Suffrage… Party Nominating Conventions… Popular Election of the President… Two-Party System… Rise of Parties… More Elected Offices… Popular Campaigning… Spoils System and Rotation of Officeholders… Read the first paragraph on page 191. List the three competing viewpoints of Jackson and the emergence of popular politics. 1. 2. 3. In what ways did Jacksonian Democracy differ from the original republicanism of the Framer’s generation? 1. 2. 3. To what extent were these differences signs of improving American democracy? One piece of evidence supporting your answer: One piece of evidence supporting the opposing view: Trial
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