JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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Detailed explanation-1: -A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s. Led by President Andrew Jackson, this movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Such tendentious revisionism may provide a useful corrective to older enthusiastic assessments, but it fails to capture a larger historical tragedy: Jacksonian Democracy was an authentic democratic movement, dedicated to powerful, at times radical, egalitarian ideals-but mainly for white men.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jacksonian Democracy was an effort to control the power of the capitalist groups-predominantly from the East, for the benefit of the non capitalist groups-predominantly farmers and laboring men.
Detailed explanation-4: -Expanded suffrage – The Jacksonians believed that voting rights should be extended to all white men. By the end of the 1820s, attitudes and state laws had shifted in favor of universal white male suffrage and by 1856 all requirements to own property and nearly all requirements to pay taxes had been dropped.