JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA BY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
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MANY STATES HAD RECENTLY ENDED THEIR PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS FOR VOTING
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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE HAD BEEN ABOLISHED
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THE FEDERALIST PARTY DISSOLVED
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POLITICAL CANDIDATES REFUSED TO CAMPAIGN ACTIVELY FOR OFFICE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson dominated in the South and the West, aided in part by the passage of the Tariff of 1828. With the ongoing expansion of the right to vote to most white men, the election marked a dramatic expansion of the electorate, with 9.5% of Americans casting a vote for president, compared with 3.4% in 1824.
Detailed explanation-2: -The campaign of 1828 was a crucial event in a period that saw the development of a two-party system akin to our modern system, presidential electioneering bearing a closer resemblance to modern political campaigning, and the strengthening of the power of the executive branch.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Overview. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He served two terms in office from 1829 to 1837. During Jackson’s presidency, the United States evolved from a republic-in which only landowners could vote-to a mass democracy, in which white men of all socioeconomic classes were enfranchised.