JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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banking lobbyists
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the common people
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the wealthiest members of society
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson’s supporters began to form the modern Democratic Party. His political rivals John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay created the National Republican Party, which would afterward combine with other anti-Jackson political groups to form the Whig Party.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Democratic-Republican Party: an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson’s supporters coalesced into the Democratic Party, while Adams’s followers became known as the National Republicans.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.