Thursday, October 30, 2008

Jacksonian Democracy





Politics is something that has been going on for a very long time. In the earlier years when the government was still being established there was something called the Jacksonian Democracy. In the Nation of Nations book that I am reading it says that Henry clay organizedThe National Repuclicans, and it also says " the new style of politics came into its own nationally only when Andrew Jackson swept to power at the head of a new party, The Democrats." So in the Nation of Nations book it lets us know that the new system of politics came to be when Jackson organized the new democratic party. With this new style of politics many things changed new things started to happen. The Jacksonian democracy changed things from being not equal for all to the equal rights that people have now.

Jacksonian Democracy had certain principles by which they abided and tried to make things happen. I will talk to you about these things. One principle they had was Expanded suffrage, the Jacksonians felt that voting rights should have been more important they made it so that any white man could vote at the time, instead of just the richer people who onwned land.
Another thing was thing was Manifest Destiny they wabted to expand to other countreis, and this was something good because it built on our country. They wanted a limitation on the expantion because they did not want slavery to expand to other countries as well, the whig party a rival tpp the Jacksonians did not like this system of politics, but the Jacksonian way of doing thing led to what we have today the equality of all races.

The Jacksonians wanted the people to be a part of the governement, that wasn't happening before the Jacksonian Democracy, and the Jacksonians accomplished that, the influance of the people in the government. The uprising if the Jacksonian Democracy made the politice kind of how they are now with the two opposing parties, Republicans and Democrats. Jacksonian Democracy made the increase in respect for the common man not just the people who have more money or own land, there was more equality in the country.

The Jacksonian Democracy was constantly politically fighting with the Whigs party, and they made an impact in the political participation of the people in the government with their votes and stuff like that. John Quincy Adams was the firts person who was elected witht the vote from the common man and not only land owners.

I think that Jacksonian Democracy made it possible for a lot of things to happen a new system of politics, the equality of the people. It made it so that the people could be more in the government like they had a decision that they could state by voting for these candidates that were there. The growth or our country was also something else that was good, and overall i think that the Jacksonian Democracy was very good in the early start of America as well as now.

Sources:


James West, Davidson, Gienapp William E., Heyrman Christine Leigh, Lytle Mark H., and Stoff Micheal B.. Nation of Nations. United States of America: McGraw Hill College Companies, 1999.

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