JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Federlaist
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Democratic-Republican
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Democrat
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Republican
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Detailed explanation-1: -As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties grew out of the old Republican Party–the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing him.
Detailed explanation-2: -An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after 1828.
Detailed explanation-3: -Believing that social cleavages and inequities were fostered rather than ameliorated by governmental intervention, he embraced laissez-faire as the policy most conducive to economic equality and political liberty. Jackson was both a fiery patriot and a strident partisan.