Choose 4 of the following questions to answer in 200-300 words each separately. Don’t forget to add any references.
1) What were Andrew Jackson’s policies on banking and tariffs? How did they evolve? Do you think those policies helped or hurt the American economy? Why?
2) Why did Jackson support Indian Removal? Did Removal help to preserve, or to destroy, Native American culture? Explain your answer.
3) How did wage laborers respond to the new economy?
4) What roles did governmentstate and nationalplay in the development of America’s transportation networks?
5) From the evidence provided in the text, could it be argued that the construction of the Erie Canal was the central economic event of the first half of the nineteenth century? Why or why not?
6) How did the development of a market economy change the lives of artisans and farm families?
7) What challenges did the promoters of the Commonwealth system face? How did they use government at state and national levels to promote economic growth and the market economy?
8) Why did many Americans believe that the grant of special privileges and charters to private businesses was in conflict with republican principles?
