Skip to main content

Home/ AmHist/ Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jacob Acey

Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jacob Acey

Jacob Acey

Jacksonian democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Jacksonian Democracy is the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
  • The Federalist Party and the First Party System were dead, and with no effective opposition, the old Democratic-Republican Party withered away.
  • Jackson fulfilled his promise of broadening the influence of the citizenry in government, although not without vehement controversy over his methods
  • ...5 more annotations...
  • Jackson's equal political policy became known as "Jacksonian Democracy", subsequent to ending what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites
  • "stretches the concept of democracy about as far as it can go and still remain workable....As such it has inspired much of the dynamic and dramatic
  • Jackson's biographer Robert V. Remini argues that Jacksonian Democracy,
  • events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in American history—Populism, Progressivism, the New and Fair Deals, and the programs of the New Frontier and Great Society."[2]
    • Jacob Acey
       
      I wonder what would have happened if the jacksonian democracy just didn't work? luike Robert V. Remini said; it "stretches the concept of democracy about as far as it can go and still remain workable". what if it din't work?
  •  
    Jacksonian democracy
1 - 3 of 3
Showing 20 items per page