... egalitarian ideals "but mainly for white men. Socially and intellectually, the Jacksonian movement represented not the insurgency of a specific class or region but a diverse, sometimes testy national coalition. Its origins stretch back to the democratic stirrings of the American Revolution, the Antifederalists of the 1780s and 1790s, and the Jeffersonian Democratic Republicans. More directly, it arose ... the few against the many, oppositionists argued, carefully guided economic growth would provide more for everyone. Government encouragement "in the form of tariffs, internal improvemen...

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