APUSH DBQ
Jack Magill
APUSH/Period 4
18 November 2014
The Jacksonian Rule The 1820’s in the United States saw a presidential election won on a “corrupt bargain”, a Yankee Misfit in office, and the end of the era of Good Feelings; the United States was desperate for a fresh new face to take office and restore power to the people. Andrew Jackson and his comrades did what they believed in, what they thought was necessary to uphold the use of the constitution to guide the administration and give power to the people, retain the balance of economic powers in the government regarding the national bank, and using political democracy in advantageous ways, that sometimes were controversial, through the Spoils System and the Kitchen Cabinet. When Andrew Jackson was elected into office, fear rang out among the Whigs about Jackson being “King Mob” and that power would be given to uneducated citizens who were part of the “Jacksonians”, this would be proven true, and was crucial to the Jackson administration. These worries were not completely unwarranted, as only a year before Jackson took office, many riots broke out in the eastern cities, in an account of the riots by Phillip Hone, there were several houses torn to the ground and several police officers were wounded in the unusually rowdy city of Philadelphia. (Doc E) These riots proved that America was capable of turning into a ‘mobocracy” gave Andrew Jackson the challenge of reigning in his wild supporters. Although all of these riots were going on, Andrew still wanted to give power to the people and decided to clean house in Washington, which saw the aging politicians get kicked out of office, and brought in people who were simply the highest bidder, or very close friends to someone in the Jackson administration. The control that Jackson gained at the start of his term showed that he could gain power and allowed the commoners to play a bigger role in politics and use this power to control his own people. He protected the rights
APUSH/Period 4
18 November 2014
The Jacksonian Rule The 1820’s in the United States saw a presidential election won on a “corrupt bargain”, a Yankee Misfit in office, and the end of the era of Good Feelings; the United States was desperate for a fresh new face to take office and restore power to the people. Andrew Jackson and his comrades did what they believed in, what they thought was necessary to uphold the use of the constitution to guide the administration and give power to the people, retain the balance of economic powers in the government regarding the national bank, and using political democracy in advantageous ways, that sometimes were controversial, through the Spoils System and the Kitchen Cabinet. When Andrew Jackson was elected into office, fear rang out among the Whigs about Jackson being “King Mob” and that power would be given to uneducated citizens who were part of the “Jacksonians”, this would be proven true, and was crucial to the Jackson administration. These worries were not completely unwarranted, as only a year before Jackson took office, many riots broke out in the eastern cities, in an account of the riots by Phillip Hone, there were several houses torn to the ground and several police officers were wounded in the unusually rowdy city of Philadelphia. (Doc E) These riots proved that America was capable of turning into a ‘mobocracy” gave Andrew Jackson the challenge of reigning in his wild supporters. Although all of these riots were going on, Andrew still wanted to give power to the people and decided to clean house in Washington, which saw the aging politicians get kicked out of office, and brought in people who were simply the highest bidder, or very close friends to someone in the Jackson administration. The control that Jackson gained at the start of his term showed that he could gain power and allowed the commoners to play a bigger role in politics and use this power to control his own people. He protected the rights