JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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attracted many Catholics and Episcopalians
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wanted to restore the National Bank
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was supportive of high tariffs and internal improvements
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was generally opposed to slavery
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Detailed explanation-1: -An American political party formed in the 1830s to oppose President Andrew Jackson and the Democrats. Whigs stood for protective tariffs, national banking, and federal aid for internal improvements.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following was true of Whig politicians? They were economic nationalists who wanted the federal government to support a national bank. Why did Jackson veto the proposed Maysville Road, an internal improvement in Kentucky?
Detailed explanation-3: -Whigs tended to be educators and professionals; manufacturers; business-oriented farmers; British and German Protestant immigrants; upwardly aspiring manual laborers; free blacks; and active members of Presbyterian, Unitarian, and Congregational churches.
Detailed explanation-4: -Democrats supported a “hands-off” attitude of the government and economy. Whigs wanted a moral America by supporting economic regulation and tended to view society as a hierarchy of social classes, but believed anyone could move upward in society.