Although Jacksonian Democrats promoted political democracy, equal opportunity, and personal liberty during Andrew Jackson's two terms as president from 1828 to 1836, they were exclusively given to White males. Despite Jackson's proclaimed "politics for the common man," he may as well have said "poli...
From 1836-1877 a loosely powered Presidential reconstruction of the Southern states existed while eventually a stricter more involved program by the Congress redeemed the southern states. ... "Freedom itself became a terrain of conflict, its substances open to different and sometimes contradictory interpretations, its content changing for whites as well as blacks in the aftermath of the Civil War" (Foner, 35). ...
Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. In the light of the following documents and your knowledge of the 1820s and 1830s. To what extent do you agree with the Jacksonian...
