... wealth and privilege that hoped to exploit the vast majority. And this struggle, they declared, lay behind the major problems of the day, as the "associated wealth" of America sought to augment its domination. The people's best weapons were equal rights and limited government "ensuring that the already wealthy and favored classes would not enrich themselves further ... people's cause. Through the 1830s and 1840s, the mainstream Jacksonian leadership, correctly confident that their views matched those of the white majority, fought to keep the United States a democracy free from the slavery...

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