Sunday, November 25, 2007

Andrew Jackson 10/29/07

Born as a child in Revolutionary War

Captured by British

From Tennessee

Popular for anti-aristocratic platform

Decentralizes national bank

Loans should come from states

Jackson makes strides for woman and blacks, but not for Indians

Social

Era of social reform

Influence of the Second Great Awakening

Alcoholism was growing issue

Uses Bible to stop alcohllism

Indian Removal

To save NA's, remove NA's

Assimilation not working

Education

More Prisons

Greater voting rights for women

Still not suffrage

Abolition movements

Labor to industry

His term defined as resolution

Anti-Intellectual

Era of the Common Man

Frontier Men Myth

Utopian societies

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