USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Andrew Jackson had a difficult childhood. What evidence from the passage supports this conclusion?
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Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received very little schooling as a child.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties grew out of the old Republican Party–the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing him.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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