JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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Americans embraced the party system as necessary for the survival of American democracy
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Americans raised money to help defeat foreign intrigue into our elecitons
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Americans fought to keep political parties only in certain states
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Americans rarely voted because of how corrupt the system was
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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 of 1828. The factionalism within the Republican ranks led to a split and the creation of two parties-Jackson’s Democratic Republicans (soon shortened to “Democrats”) and Adams’s National Republicans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Between the 1820s and 1850, as more white males won the right to vote and political parties became more organized, the character of American democracy changed. It became more partisan and more raucous, a turn that bred ambivalence and even discontent with politics and the dominant parties.
Detailed explanation-4: -Led by President Andrew Jackson, the movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation, Jacksonian democracy was aided by the strong spirit of equality among the people of the newer settlements in the South and the West.