JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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the belief that the Constitution was the ultimate law of the land.
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the issue of slavery.
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agrarian economy versus an industrial economy.
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state rights versus the power of the federal government.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.
Detailed explanation-2: -However, the four biggest factors of causation were slavery, states vs federal rights, economics, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Northern states, having abolished slavery, sought to prevent its spread, while the Southern states, having grown more dependent on slave labor, asserted the rights of Southerners to transport their way of life into the new territories.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the wake of the Mexican War, tensions developed between the North and South over whether the western land gained by the U.S. should become free or slave territory.