Chapter 11 Notes for November 7th

chapter 11 deals with politics between 1820 and 1840.

In the north...

The Wigs

• The two political parties after Jefferson's term were the Wigs and the Jeffersonians.
• The Wigs were the more wealthy off people who made profit during the market revolution.
• The Wigs were Protestant Christians.
• The Wigs called the government to be more involved in moral issues.
• The Wigs wanted to control alcohol consumption of the people by using temperance rather than to ban it all together.
• Wigs were also in favor of Bible based public schools. This wasn't much of a problem because majority of the people were Christian.

Jeffersonians

• The Jeffersonians (democrats) came from the people who gained little from the market revolution.
• They had no use of the moral agenda.
• The largest group of the Democrats were a group of immigrants from Ireland, who were catholics.
• There were many social clashes within this party.
• The arrival of the Irish, who were poor and took low paying jobs, pushed the poor protestants to The Wigs party.
• Hal of Methodists, Baptists, and reforms churches did not like mixing government and moral behavior.

In the South...

• Democrats are the strongest within the Yeoman farmers.
• Democrats didn't have much linkage to the market economy.
• The Wigs are still the wealthy farmers, lawyers, etc.
• In the south, the wigs are promising government sponsored internal improvements. But some people of the Wig party didn't want to pay.

Overall political side differences had very little to do with religion. There was mixed religion and politics.