| Question | Answer |
| reasons for growing spirit of democracy | reformers wanted to spread suffrage and more people were turning up to vote in elections |
| suffrage | suffrage is the righ to vote by law, citizens were eager to participate in elections while the USA was rapidly growing and the states were joining the union |
| change in voting rights in the east | most eastern states dropped the requirement that you had to own land to vote |
| limits on suffrage | the people who did not gain suffrage were: women, Native Americans and black people |
| Election of 1824 | canidates: John Quincey Adams, Henery Clay and Andrew. Adams and Clay were accused of the corrupt bargain, this was when clay urged people to vote for Adams b/c if Adams became president, he would name Clay Secreatry of State, result:Adams and Clay S.S.S. |
| adams economic plan | economic growth, strong federal goverment and to improve the city's infastructure: roads, buildings etc. |
| results of the election of 1828 | Adams won his presidency and the corrupt bargain was dropped |
| whigs | wanted to help stimulate the economy and were supporters of Adams and his program |
| democrats | frontiersman and eastern factory workers who supported Jackson |
| caucus system | a group of party members who met to discuss and choose the a presidential canidates |
| Nominating Convention | where delagates from all the states met and chose the party's canidates for the election |
