AP®︎ US History: Topic 4.7 Flashcards

A political system characterized by broad voter involvement, competitive parties, popular campaigning, and direct participation in choosing leaders

State requirements that voters own a specified amount of property, based on the belief that property gave men independence and a stake in society

Voting rights for nearly all adult white male citizens regardless of property ownership, while women and most nonwhite people remained excluded

The weakening expectation that ordinary citizens should accept rule by wealthy, educated, or socially prominent men

Economic change that increased the importance of wage earners, artisans, tenants, and mobile workers, weakening the claim that only property owners were independent citizens

Thomas Dorr’s failed 1842 effort to install a government under Rhode Island’s People’s Constitution; it helped prompt broader, though still restricted, white male suffrage

Military hero portrayed as the champion of the common man who led a mass Democratic coalition and won the presidency in 1828

Jackson won pluralities of the recorded popular and electoral votes but no electoral majority; the House chose Adams, fueling the corrupt-bargain charge and Jacksonian mobilization

Required the House to choose the president from the top three electoral-vote recipients when no candidate won an Electoral College majority, with one vote per state delegation

Jacksonians’ charge that Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams win the 1824 House election in exchange for appointment as secretary of state, though no explicit bargain was proven

House-selected president in 1824 whose policies and limited use of patronage helped Jacksonians organize a disciplined opposition

Fourth-place candidate and House Speaker in 1824 who supported Adams and was then appointed secretary of state, prompting the corrupt-bargain charge

New York politician who organized Jackson’s supporters into a disciplined national coalition that became the Democratic Party

Mass party formed around Jackson and Van Buren that appealed strongly to farmers, workers, immigrants, and frontier settlers while opposing concentrated privilege

Jackson defeated Adams through a disciplined national campaign appealing directly to an enlarged white male electorate

Permanent organizations that recruited candidates, published newspapers, distributed ballots, held rallies, and mobilized ordinary voters at every political level

Mobilizing broad electorates through rallies, parades, barbecues, partisan newspapers, songs, slogans, symbols, and carefully constructed candidate images

The early system in which members of Congress selected presidential candidates, criticized as unrepresentative and abandoned after 1824

A party gathering of delegates from multiple states that selected presidential candidates and helped create national tickets, platforms, and campaign organizations

Political party that held the first national presidential nominating convention in 1831

Recognizable ballots printed and distributed by parties that listed their candidates, encouraged straight-party voting, and permitted surveillance or intimidation

The national competition between Democrats and Whigs during the 1830s and 1840s, with both parties organizing and mobilizing ordinary white male voters

Broad anti-Jackson party that opposed arbitrary executive power and attracted many merchants, manufacturers, commercial farmers, professionals, reformers, and middle-class voters

Jacksonian principle that public positions should periodically change hands rather than become the permanent property of an entrenched officeholding class

The practice of a victorious party rewarding loyal supporters with government offices, strengthening party organization while encouraging favoritism and corruption

Whig William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren through log-cabin imagery, slogans, songs, rallies, and other mass-campaign methods as turnout reached about 80 percent

Whig candidate portrayed as a log-cabin frontier soldier who defeated Martin Van Buren in the highly organized mass campaign of 1840

Shift from state legislatures appointing presidential electors to voters choosing them; by 1832, only South Carolina retained legislative selection