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Jacksonian Democracy
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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.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, visited us and wrote of our countrymen during the Jacksonian era in Democracy in America:
Manifest destiny: many 19th-century Americans believed their young ... by Hoar, William P. / The New American
The concept of equal protection, properly understood, dates back to the Jacksonian era and beyond.
The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy by Bernstein, David E. / Reason
Ever since the anti-abolitionist riots in the Jacksonian era, racist whites have justified their exclusionist, anti-egalitarian politics in terms of appeal to the collective will of "the community," "the neighborhood," "the grassroots," and "the people.
Kiss the family good-bye by Reed, Adolph, Jr. / The Progressive
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