JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Spoils System
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Victory System
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Veto System
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Nullification System
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Detailed explanation-1: -spoils system, also called patronage system, practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with other favours.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although President George Washington based most of his federal appointments on merit, subsequent presidents deviated from this policy. By the time Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828, the “spoils system, ” in which officials rewarded political friends and supporters with government positions, was in full force.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mugwumps were a faction in the GOP (Grand Old Party, another name for the Republican Party) that advocated honesty in government and an end to machine politics and political favoritism in federal employment, also known as the spoils system.
Detailed explanation-4: -During this era of reform and “Jacksonian Democracy, ” the spoils system flourished by using political patronage to reward jobs to the partisan faithful.