Learning Targets:
I can describe major developments of Andrew Jackson's Presidency.
Daily Question:
Your sentiments, that our affairs are drawing rapidly to a crisis, accord with my own. What the event will be is also beyond the reach of my foresight. We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt & carry into execution, measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power. I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation, without having lodged somewhere a power which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner, as the authority of the different state governments extend over the several States. ....
... What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.....
... What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious!
- George Washington, letter to John Jay , August 1, 1786
The sentiments in the letter by George Washington, above, reflect which of the following continuities in American History?
A. Debate about the proper balance between liberty and order
B. Debates about reconciling republicanism with the institution of slavery
C. Debates about the relationship among the three branches of government
D. Debates about the use of the military in subduing domestic disturbances
Agenda
Daily Question
Movie of Andrew Jackson
Chapter 14 Outline Whole Class Discussion
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