Expanding the Economy, Expanding Democracy in the Age of Jackson

Your textbook author Eric Foner on the Market revolution. A neat interview with the author Peter Bernstein about the building and subsequent impact of the Erie Canal. An amateur--but informative--clip on the Lowell System and "Lowell girls." A brief documentary (narrated by Edward Herman) focusing on Jackson, Indian removal, and Nullification. The clip below (this time narrated by TV president Martin Sheen) centers on how Andrew Jackson reformulated a more activist conceptualization for the office of the Chief e xecutive. The clip below gives a nicely brief overview of Jackson's great opponent Henry Clay; pay particular attention to Clay's American System.