Jacksonian Dbq

Jacksonian Democrats during the 1820’s and 1830’s were some of the more deviant men to have taken action during the beginning of the United States of America. Their policies under the great Andrew Jackson were earth –shockingly new and aimed simply at bettering the United States itself rather than attempting to strengthen their own political power or wealth. Their aims were to improve the situation of the “common man”, a group that Andrew Jackson (and a great percentage of the US population in general) had grown up with. One may find their policies unstable and uncanny, but the only significance of this change of opinion is to show that rather than sticking stubbornly to policies that would only serve to strengthen a more wealthy group of people, their policies would be constituted in order to justifiably solve problems presented to them by the people of the United States, not the problems presented to them by Democrats or Republicans. These men were the guardians of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They censured economic monopoly and broadened the public voting process to a new population of voters; the non-taxpayers and non-landowners. This created a voting system that represented a greater part of America than ever before. They truly were the protectors and creators of an America that revered individual liberty, equal right of economic opportunity, and justices and liberties presented to us by God as written in the Constitution of the United States.            
“When a long chain of abuses and usurpations take place, all invariably leading to the oppression and degradation of one class of society, and to the unnatural and iniquitous exaltation of another by political leaders, it is their right and duty…to reform the abuses of such a government…” This quote from Document A is a great summary of the goal of the men of Jacksonian Democracy. The Jacksonians would do all in their power to give equal opportunity to all white, Anglo-Saxon,...