Module 4 Introduction and Assigned Sources Introduction In this module, we exam

Module 4 Introduction and Assigned Sources
Introduction
In this module, we examine the origins of the Constitution and the debates Americans engaged in about whether the states should ratify it. Those debates, which pitted Federalists against Anti-Federalists, laid the foundation for America’s political party systems, even if it was never inevitable that there would be political parties in the first place. In the wake of the Revolution, questions about the proper size and role of the federal government, the relationship between federal and state governments, and the kinds of individual rights the federal government could not infringe on, were matters of life and death. There was no guarantee that America’s experiment as a democratic republic Links to an external site
https://www.democracyandme.org/a-democratic-republic-what-is-that/ would work and most foreign observers predicted its inevitable demise and conquest by yet another European colonial power. The stakes could not have been higher and factions formed almost immediately in George Washington’s presidential administration, particularly around his secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson, and secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Each side believed their vision for America would ensure the republic’s survival while their opponents’ ideas would lead to monarchy or mob rule. Despite Washington’s warnings against political parties, these factions gave birth to the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. The Democratic-Republican Party, associated first with Thomas Jefferson, was known at the time as the Republican Party, which was not the same party as today’s Republican Party, which formed in 1854.
By the 1820s and 1830s, America’s first political party system gave way to its second when political leaders created two new dominant parties, the Democrats and Whigs, to replace the outdated and weakened Federalist and Republican parties. The Democratic Party, also known at the time as the Democracy, developed around President Andrew Jackson. The Whig Party, which traced some of its roots to the Federalists, emerged as an opposition party. It was during this time that many poorer White men gained voting rights and many of them, including recent immigrants (particularly the Irish), gravitated to the Democratic Party, which they viewed as the party of the working man, the one opposed to elite political and financial interests, including the Bank of the United States. Andrew Jackson, who was born poor in the Carolina backcountry to Scotch-Irish immigrant parents, embodied the
Democracy’s identity as the party of the common American and became a hero among the nation’s White working class. He also earned renown as a military hero in the War of 1812 and related wars against the Creek Indians in the southeast, which opened up land for White settlers. Like many other people during this time, my 4th great-grandfather, who lived in rural eastern North Carolina during the 1820s and 1830s, named one of his son’s after Andrew Jackson. My third great-grandfather’s name was Andrew Jackson Pender. He was born in 1826.
This was an era of fierce political partisanship when newspapers aligned with each party printed salacious stories about their opponents that worsened the vitriol. Sound familiar? It was also the time when political parties modernized and began creating platforms and conventions and instituting campaign techniques. All of this occurred amid an industrial revolution in America that led to the rapid growth of cities, widening divides between rich and poor, and labor unrest. Political parties provided outlets for some Americans (women and Black and Indigenous people could not vote) to express their ideas, fears, and grievances and feel like they had a voice in this era of tumultuous and bewildering change. Nevertheless, those same modern political parties deepened social and political divides in the nation that would only widen in the future.
“A New Nation,”Links to an external site. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/06-a-new-nation/ Chapter 6, The American Yawp
“The Early Republic,”Links to an external site. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/07-the-early-republic/
Chapter 7, The American Yawp
“Democracy in America,”Links to an external site.https://www.americanyawp.com/text/09-democracy-in-america/ Chapter 9, The American Yawp
Film
“Are We to Be a Nation?”Links to an external site.https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/b590d6/alma991003321589706575 Episode six of the series, Liberty! This film discusses the fragile condition of the United States of America following the Revolution and the reasons some founders believed a new Constitution was necessary. The film addresses the origins of the Constitution and the often fierce debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over its ratification by the states. It also highlights the Constitution’s structure, provisions, including the Bill of Rights, and its importance to our nation today.
Democracy in America Links to an external site.https://fscj-flvc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01FALSC_FSCJ/b590d6/alma991003319432606575 This film explores the growth of American democracy during the early nineteenth century, including the expansion of White male suffrage, though women, African Americans, and Indigenous people continued to lack voting rights. It also addresses how our modern political party system developed during this time, including the use of party conventions and platforms. Finally, it discusses the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1828 who, for many, embodied both the positive and negative implications of the nation’s new democratic spirit.
Instructions
Instructions: This is open-book and open-note quiz, but you must write everything in your own words unless providing specific supporting evidence or quotes from the assigned materials. Please use MLA style in-text citations to cite your sources. You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz.
Time: You have 90 minutes to complete the quiz.
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