... settlers' preemption rights. Around these policies, Jacksonian leaders built a democratic ideology aimed primarily at voters who felt injured by or cut off from the market revolution. Updating the more democratic pieces of the republican legacy, they posited that no republic could long survive without a citizenry of economically independent men. Unfortunately, they claimed, that state of republican ... carefully guided economic growth would provide more for everyone. Government encouragement "in the form of tariffs, internal improvements, a strong national bank, and aid to a wide range ...

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