Read through the Society, Image, Rhetoric and Memory sections of Andrew Jackson: “Champion of the Kingly Commons.” (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/jackson/jackson.html).

1			Does this author characterize Jackson as a “man of the people,” a member of the Southern elite, or as something else entirely?
2			Why does this author believe that Jackson rose to such political prominence?

Read the following seemingly straightforward short biography of Andrew Jackson (http://library.thinkquest.org/12587/contents/personalities/ajackson/aj.html).

3			Can you discern any particular historical interpretation of Jackson in this essay?

Now read Bertram Wyatt-Brown’s essay on Andrew Jackson’s Honor (http://web.archive.org/web/20041015112419/http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bwyattb/jackson2.htm).

4			How exactly does Brown define honor? What role does he claim it played in Jackson’s life? What kind of interpretation of Jackson results from approaching his life from such a perspective?
5			Do these websites reveal any consistencies in their characterization of Jackson? Upon what issues do they agree and disagree?
6			The history of Jackson and Jacksonian America does not seem as obviously important for modern Americans as does the history of the origins and construction of the Constitution. What does the history of this era have to offer us? Make a case for its importance to our efforts to understand our own society.

Other sites with primary and secondary sources about Jackson and Jacksonian America include:

7			The Avalon Project- The Papers of Andrew Jackson (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jackpap.htm) Why the United States Bank Was Closed- text of speech by Andrew Jackson (http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/writings/bank/jackson.htm) President Andrew Jackson’s Case for the Removal Act- First Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1830- (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/andrew.htm)