Andrew Jackson - DBQ: DIRECTIONS: You Are Going To Outline A Response To The Following DBQ Prompt Regarding

Andrew Jackson DBQ
Using Primary Sources to Address Andrew Jackson & the Bank of the US DIRECTIONS: You are going to outline a response to the following DBQ prompt regarding Andrew Jackson. Your outline must include your TEL introductory paragraph, topic sentences for each body paragraph, and a bulleted list of outside information and documents that you would use to support your thesis. This DBQ must be typed and handed in by Monday November 30th, 2009 at 3:00pm. LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please use the information on my web page such as How to Write an Essay for History to be successful for this assessment. You should also use your skills regarding primary source analysis (SOAPS) to help you integrate the documents into your response as well as the knowledge of Andrew Jackson you have gained from our text and in class assignments. Use the attached Jackson DBQ Rubric to guide your response. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DO A THOROUGH JOB COVERING THIS MATERAIL AND ITS IMPORTANCE.
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Andrew Jackson Rubric
8-9
Contains a well-developed thesis that addresses all aspects of the question Effectively uses a substantial number of documents Supports thesis with substantial and relevant outside information Presents detailed and sophisticated analysis of all aspects of the question Is clearly organized and well-written Few mechanical or factual errors Contains a thesis that addresses some aspects of the question Uses some documents effectively Supports thesis with some outside information Has some analysis of some aspects of the questions Has adequate organization and writing May contain some factual errors that do not seriously detract from the essay Contains a limited, confused, and/or poorly developed thesis Takes descriptive rather than analytical approach to the question Quotes or briefly cites some documents Contains little outside information, or information that is generally inaccurate or irrelevant Has major organizational problems May contain major factual errors Confused and/or poorly developed introductory paragraph; no thesis or a thesis that does not address the question Exhibits inadequate or inaccurate understanding of the question Contains little or no understanding of the documents or ignores them completely Is so poorly written or organized, that it inhibits understanding Contains numerous mechanical and factual errors -- both major and minor
5-7
2-4
0-1
In the debate over the National Bank, Andrew Jackson chose partisan politics over the well-being of the national economy. Assess the validity of this statement using the documents below and your knowledge of the time period from 1828-1836. Document A Source: Jacksons Veto Message to Congress July 10, 1832 It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our government. More than eight millions of the stock of this bank is held by foreigners. By this act, the American republic proposes to make them a present of some millions of dollars Every monopoly, and all exclusive privileges, are granted at the expense of the public, which ought to receive a fair equivalent If we must have a bank of private stockholders, every consideration of sound policy, and every impulse of American feeling, admonishes that it should be purely American when laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages, artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, and to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and laborers who have neither the time nor the means of securing the like favors to themselves, have a right to complain against their government Document B Source: Boston Daily Atlas August 9, 1832 The Bank veto is the most wholly radical and basely Jesuitical document that ever emanated from any administration in any country. It violates all our established notions and feelings. It arraigns Congress for not asking permission of the Executive before daring to legislate on the matter, and fairly intimates a design to save the two Houses in future from all such trouble. It impudently asserts that Congress had acted prematurely, blindly, and without sufficient examination. It falsely and wickedly alleges that the rich and powerful throughout the country are waging a war of oppression against the poor and the weak; and attempts to justify the President on the ground of its being his duty to protect the humble when so assailed. Document C Source: Henry Clay addresses Andrew Jacksons leadership (1833) We have seen a corporation, charged with the execution of a great national work, dismiss an experienced, faithful, and zealous president, afterward testify to his ability by a voluntary resolution, and reward his extraordinary services by a large gratuity, and appoint in his place an executive favorite, totally inexperienced and incompetent, to propitiate the President... People, especially official incumbents in this place, no longer dare speak in the fearless tones of manly freedom but in the cautious whispers of trembling slaves.
Document D Source: Daniel Websters reply to Jacksons veto message July 1832 [This message] extends the grasp of executive pretension over every power of government It appeals to every prejudice which may betray men into a mistaken view of their own interests, and to every passion which may lead them to disobey the impulses of their understanding It sows, in an unsparing manner, the seeds of jealousy and ill-will against that government of which its author is the official head It manifestly seeks to inflame the poor against the rich; it wantonly attacks whole classes of people, for the purpose of turning against them the prejudices and the resentments of the other classes. It is a state paper which finds no topic too exciting for its use, no passion to inflammable for its address and its solicitation. Document E Source: Andrew Jacksons Farewell Address We are not left to conjecture how the moneyed power, thus organized with such a weapon in its hands, would be likely to use it. The distress and alarm which pervaded and agitated the whole country when the Bank of the United States waged war upon the people in order to compel them to submit to its demands cannot yet be forgotten. The ruthless and unsparing temper with which whole cites and communities were oppressed, individuals impoverished and ruined, and a scene of cheerful prosperity suddenly changed into one of gloom and despondency ought to by indelibly impressed on the memory of the people of the United States.

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