Expanding Democracy

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Election of 1828: Electoral Votes New England Mid-Atlantic (split) West South Jackson (D-R) 178 EV Adams (NR) 83 EV

The regional voting pattern depicted reflects which key feature of Jacksonian politics?

  • A

    An alliance of Southern planters and Western farmers against Northeastern commercial elites

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  • B

    A unified national consensus behind Jackson's Bank policy

  • C

    A Whig coalition that broke the Democrats' grip on the South

  • D

    The dominance of urban workers in determining presidential outcomes

Explanation

Jackson built a coalition of Southern slaveholders and Western frontier voters who distrusted Adams's National Republican program and the Northeastern establishment.

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