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Making America: A History of the United States, Brief Second Edition
Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny, James L. Gormly, W. Thomas Mainwaring
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Chapter 11: Responses To The Great Transformation, 1828 - 1840

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Describe the choices Americans made in dealing with the stresses created by the rapid change of the Jacksonian era and evaluate the cultural outcome.

  2. Discuss the major elements of American cultural thought during the Jacksonian era, and describe efforts by some thinkers to cope with what they thought was an excess of individualism.

  3. Trace the evolution of the Whig party, from its origins in the early 1830s to its victory in the presidential election of 1840.



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