Many historians viewed Andrew Jackson’s election commenced in the era of the common man, the enfranchised voters drove out the entrenched elite class and elected on of their own. Other historians viewed Jackson as a despot whose appeal to the uneducated masses and “corrupt” spoils system endangered the well fair of the nation. Nonetheless, Andrew Jackson would have an impact on the government. The changing politics of the Jacksonian years paralleled complex social and economic change. Once in office, Jackson proved to be a more forceful president since Thomas Jefferson. Jackson remained popular because he portrayed himself as the embodiment of the people’s will. These following political reform
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