JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Abolition of slavery
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Nullification of laws
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Funding for industrialization
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Elimination of the national bank
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Detailed explanation-1: -As progressively defined by Jackson during his two terms, the party’s outlook was essentially laissez-faire. Anointing themselves as Thomas Jefferson’s true heirs, Democrats stood for simple, frugal, and unintrusive government.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Whigs emerged in the 1830s in opposition to President Andrew Jackson, pulling together former members of the National Republican Party, the Anti-Masonic Party, and disaffected Democrats.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson laid the framework for democracy, paid off the national debt, gained new lands for America, strengthened relationships with foreign nations globally and issued a new currency.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Whig Party was a political party formed in 1834 by opponents of President Andrew Jackson and his Jacksonian Democrats.