JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Trail of Tears
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Democrats
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Kitchen Cabinet
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The informal committee was referred to as the “kitchen cabinet” by opposition media, who implied that it was sinister for the president to receive so much unofficial counsel. The parlor cabinet was another name for Jackson’s formal cabinet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet included his longtime political allies Martin Van Buren, Francis Preston Blair, Amos Kendall, William B. Lewis, Andrew Donelson, John Overton, and his new attorney general Roger Brooke Taney.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Kitchen Cabinet was a mocking term applied to an official circle of advisers to President Andrew Jackson. The term has endured through many decades, and now generally refers to a politician’s informal circle of advisers.