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Jacksonian Democracy is the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
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The Federalist Party and the First Party System were dead, and with no effective opposition, the old Democratic-Republican Party withered away.
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Jackson fulfilled his promise of broadening the influence of the citizenry in government, although not without vehement controversy over his methods
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Jackson's equal political policy became known as "Jacksonian Democracy", subsequent to ending what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites
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"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
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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]
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