Jacksonian Era Dbq

Some may say that John Brown actually helped the gain of Lincoln’s presidency. His actions increased the Republican’s party’s chance of winning. Even after Lincoln was elected president, John Brown continued to shine. He managed to shake an image of insurrection in the minds of many of the South and North. In addition, he polarized the two dividing sections. Some saw Brown as a terrorist, whereas others saw him as a hero. His ideas where quarreled upon and talked about by many. With the Harper’s Ferry attack being the most prominent, his acts didn’t go away unnoticed. People, particularly in the North, began to see the big possibility of the North taking substantial measures to overthrow slavery. John Brown took abolitionism to higher degree that no other abolitionist took before. With his use of destructive protesting, a legitimate conclusion can be made that John Brown helped speed up the Civil War by wasting no time to take extreme action about abolishing slavery. If John Brown had not done his doings, the seriousness of slavery wouldn’t have been taken as quickly as it

The Constitution has had many people who were guardians and people who were not throughout the history of the United States. Reforms and major events under the administration of Jackson were huge turning points in history. Women were starting to have a voice, property qualifications died off, and the nullification crisis are examples. Although these reforms make it seem Jacksonian democrats were guardians, Jacksonian democrats were not guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and the equality of economic opportunity.

Although the intention was good, his rotation reform did not succeed. Instead of giving offices according to the achievements, Jackson distributed them as a reward for the loyalty to himself and his political course. Thus, he was literally replacing federal employees with friends or party loyalists. As a result, some of unsavory individuals came in for special favor. For instance, Jackson made Samuel Swartwout a collector of the New York City customhouse. After collecting their annual revenue, Samuel Swartwout escaped with more than $1 million. In my opinion, the rotation in the office is a big failure of Jackson’s presidency. The power was concentrated in the hands of the permanent officeholders and the executive party caucus; however, it didn’t really transfer power to the

Due to the Jacksonian era, politics are now a fundamentally different structure compared to those before it. The democracy of Andrew Jackson, which was created for the people by the people, compared to other self-centered politicians, created a new era for the “common man”. His way of being an advocate for the people made other politicians made others forced to follow his lead to gain votes. The way Andrew Jackson both spoke and executed his ideas ended up angering the many which created a larger divide in the United States. Jacksonian Democracy made the political process run by more “common men”, caused the Union to falter even more, and furthered the development of sectionalism.

John Brown’s beliefs about slavery and activities to destroy it hardly represented the mainstream of northern society in the years leading up to the Civil War. This rather unique man, however, took a leading role in propelling the nation toward secession and conflict. Many events influenced Brown’s views on slavery from an early age. When he was older, his strong anti-slavery feelings had grown, and he became an extreme abolitionist. His raid on Harpers Ferry was one of the first monumental events leading up to the civil war.

Andrew Jackson's name has been very closely tied with democracy. If you look at the definition of democracy, a government in which everyone participates equally, and then take a look at Andrew Jackson's presidency you will see that this is far from similar comparison for many reasons. Jackson is known as "King Andrew I" for a reason, and that was not for his democratic policies.

The Jacksonians created a tariff that made the goods manufactured in Europe cost more than the ones from the Northern states to the outrage of the South Carolinians and other Southern states, who bought goods mostly from Europe at the time. This started the Nullification crisis, since South Carolina threatened to succeed from the union (Document F). The case of Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge is another example of this. The Massachusetts government allowed a charter of the Warren Bridge, after the Charles River Bridge had already made a bridge over the river and had tolls in place for those traveling over it. This undermined the deal with the Charles River Bridge, but still a Democratic Republican, Chief Justice Taney, ruled in favor of the Warren Bridge (Document H). While it opened up the market to competitors, it also prevented the Charles Bridge from making the revenue it would have previously, thus limiting their economic success. Also, more notably, “King” Andrew stopped out the charter of the 2nd national bank, which would have offered internal improvements and potentially more economic opportunities (Document I). The Whigs, in protest to this, started an outcry in result to Jackson’s veto, depicted Andrew Jackson as a corrupt tyrant and king. In fact, the entire Whig Party sprouted from this remonstration; the protest of King Andrew Jackson using his power to unbalance the economy and take democracy out of the hands of the

The Jacksonian Era has long been known as the era of the “common man” for Jackson’s contributions to the rights of the people. Before Andrew Jackson became President in 1928, the nation wasn’t as appealing for the “common man”. The Founding Fathers wanted the country to be a republic with the “common man” having a say in their government, but instead it turned into elitists controlling most of the government and economy. However, when Jackson came to office he was determined to change that system so he decided to put in policies in order to make the United States a more democratic nation for the “common man”. In regards to economic and political developments, this period lived up to the extent where it let the common people have more say in

Andrew Jackson was a self-proclaimed advocate of the common man, and his terms as president from 1828 to 1836 were characterized by many positive and negative changes, often concurrently. The Jacksonian period marked both an economic recession and opportunity, and simultaneously an attempt to champion the rights of the common man, with the concrete evidence of greater voter percentage, but less political rights regarding those officeholders. The economy changed when a relatively stable economy was plunged into the Panic of 1837 and the recession, while the west opened up to white settlement after the Indian’s forced removal. The political rights of the common man largely stayed the same from before to after the period (though rights decreased

Supporters of Andrew Jackson, winner of the 1828 election, began to call themselves Democrats. This Democratic Party wanted small government and opposed trade protection, paper money, and national banks. With Jackson behind the party, the amount of middle class supporters grew. He focused on being the common man’s politician and most importantly, this sparked social and economic changes during these times. The Jacksonians wanted elected judges and in national terms they preferred geographic growth, justifying it as Manifest Destiny.

The dominant controversy included the conflict between the free black men wanting the right to vote and racist politicians; another was Jackson being against the Second B.U.S. Jacksonian Democracy was a turning point for America that provided a script for acts in the future. Jackson, from the very beginning of his presidency, strived to change the political system of the U.S. He began by

During this time period, Jacksonian Democrats supported “universal suffrage,” which brought power to the common man. Andrew Jackson’s attack of the upper classes was a positive influence on the rest of the country because the Jacksonians defended United States Constitution in favor of the common man, who as abused by the upper classes, and added

Jacksonian DBQ The Jacksonian rhetoric of political democracy, individual liberty, and economic opportunity was certainly one full of contradictions. Politically, while the administration promoted majority rule and increased participation in politics, the only people benefitted from the policies were the members of its own. The Jacksonians were not egalitarians of any kind, doing little to challenge racial discrimination and supervising one of the harshest attacks on Native American tribes. While they strove to protect equality of economic opportunity by attacking elitist organizations such as the federal-owned BUS and Charles River Bridge monopoly, the economic utopia never became more than a dream in such that the measures acted as a springboard for a string of devastating economic downturns (for example, the Panic of 1837).

With the rise of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, there were many changes in the government. The people who believed in his ideals were called Jacksonian Democrats. The Jacksonian Democrats indeed were the protectors of the US Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and economic equality.

     Jacksonian (Democracy, Society, etc.) is a term used to describe reform during the time of Andrew Jackson’s Presidency. Specifically Jacksonian Democracy refers to “the general extension of democracy that characterized U.S. politics from 1824 to 1828.” Jacksonian Democracy and its support came primarily from the lower classes as a rebellion of sorts apposing the aristocracy. Even though it stressed equality, it was pro-slavery and anti-Indian (not unlike Andrew Jackson). Also there was change in both the political parties and the social reforms. Jackson was seen as a westerner (even though he was from Tennessee) and a president of the common man. This we can see when he married women