1. Jacksonian Era Odds and Ends ►A►A►A►ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE AAAAristocratic Frenchman that toured the United States in 1831 WWWWrote Democracy in America expressing his observations of life in America TTTThe book deals with issues like religion, the press, money, class structure, racism, the role of government, and the American judicial system

2. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ►M►M►M►MONEY ►"►"►"►"...I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property."

3. ► WOMEN AND MEN ► "In America, more than anywhere else in the world, care has been taken constantly to trace clearly distinct spheres of action for the two sexes, and both are required to keep in step, but along paths that are never the same."

4. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ► Politics ► "There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents."

5. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ► REVOLUTION ► "If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto."

6. NAT TURNER’S REBELLION - 1831 ► Turner was a preacher-slave ► Killed 55 white men, women, and children in Virginia ► Gave fuel to the growing abolitionist movement and heightened southern fear of slave rebellion ► See 10 minute clip from Africans in America

7. The Philadelphia Riots of 1844 ► Symbolic of a growing nativist movement in the U.S. ► Nativism – anti-Immigration sentiment; The American Party (The Know-Nothings) ► Read – The Collapse of Brotherly Love