Jacksonian Democracy

In US history, a period in which belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people became more popular, characterized by the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren 1829–1841. The new way of thinking encouraged Americans in general to play a greater role in the democratic process, and this grassroots movement opened the political process open to far more people.

Jackson symbolized the new attitudes of equality in a number of ways; he was the first president who was not a Virginian or an Adams, and he was a pioneer, an American Indian fighter, and a war hero.