Walt Whitman, Nicholas Biddle, Michel Chevalier on America

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Chapter 9: Jacksonian Democracy

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Walt Whitman, Nicholas Biddle, Michel Chevalier on America

Please read the following selections and then answer the questions in the space provided.

Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)

Nicholas Biddle, Commencement Address (1835)

Michel Chevalier, Society, Manners and Politics in the United States (1834)

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Compare the interpretations of American society by Chevalier, Biddle, and Whitman. Which do you think more accurately describes the nation in this period?

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What is Jacksonian Democracy and how did it shape the nation and its popular culture?

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