Key Concepts
Key Concept 4.1: The United States began to develop a modern democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and change their society and institutions to match them.
I. The nation's transition to a more participatory democracy was achieved by expanding suffrage from a system based on property ownership to one based on voting by all adult white men, and it was accomplished by the growth of political parties.
I. The nation's transition to a more participatory democracy was achieved by expanding suffrage from a system based on property ownership to one based on voting by all adult white men, and it was accomplished by the growth of political parties.
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A) In the early 1800s, national political parties continued to debate issues such as the tariff, powers of the federal government, and relations with European powers. |
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B) Supreme Court decisions established the primacy of the judiciary in determining the meaning of the Constitution and asserted that federal laws took precedence over state laws. |
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C) By the 1820s and 1830s, new political parties arose — the Democrats, led, by Andrew Jackson, and the Whigs, led by Henry Clay — that disagreed about the role and powers of the federal government and issues such as the national bank, tariffs, and federally funded internal improvements. |
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D) Regional interests often trumped national concerns as the basis for many political leaders’ positions on slavery and economic policy |
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II. While Americans embraced a new national culture, various groups developed distinctive cultures of their own.