JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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appointing Henry Clay to serve in his cabinet.
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extending voting rights to the common man.
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increasing the debt of the United States.
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stopping recolonization in the Americas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The election marked the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System.
Detailed explanation-3: -Common Man: the everyday, working class man – not a wealthy landowner or man of power like a politician. Andrew Jackson, despite his high office, became emblematic of the common man because he came from humble beginnings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Beyond position-taking, the Jacksonians propounded a social vision in which any white man would have the chance to secure his economic independence, would be free to live as he saw fit, under a system of laws and representative government utterly cleansed of privilege.