Saturday, November 3, 2007

To what extent the Jacksonian Period has been celebrated as the era of "common man".

During the Jacksonian period, the political parties were redefined and organized toward lower classes' poor, while decreasing the influence of rich and powerful. Economically they benefit from governing during a time of leading advances in transportation, which boost commerce and helped the common men . Polically, they introduced the spoils system in rewarding political supporters with public office. The Jacksonian demorats portrayed themselves as savior of the common people and ruled via a powerful executive who attempt to destroy aristocracy in America. However they supported the white men only, enacted disatrous economic policies which disregarded the capability of the federal government. Furthermore, they did not introduce the democracy in America, rather merely used it, and caused the potential insecurity on a national scale.
Sectional jealousies found a spectacular outlet in 1829, a split was emergeing between the industrializing urban north , rural south, and expanding west. As a first westerner to become president, in attempted to benefit urban, small manufacturers and farmer and break the monopoly of airstocracy, Jackson looked with favor on economism activism on the part of state government. Hostility to the active federal economic role envisions by Henry Clay's America System, Jackson placed the federal money in state banks. This attempt destablized the national currnecy, decreased currency in market, and displayed favortism in Jacksonian policies. Polically, fearful of angering southern voter, Jacksonians veered away from extending egalitaian policies to slaves. Women recieved little improvemnet. Although viewed defenders of all common men, Jacksonian democrats shunned only on the minorities and only assisted. Under the spoils system, insecurity replaced the security and discouraged many able citizens from entering the publics from entering public service. It almost hypocritical, that although Jacksonian democrts were able portray themselves as defenders of the common man, they usually tended to be wealthy and gain control of the office. The apointee also were often inefficient and corrupt as the illiterates, incompetents were given the position of public trust. Overall, the Jacksonian democracy did allow more people to vote than ever before and made the government more directly reponsible to the people. But as they tried to further the movements but ended up cause many failure both economically and politically.

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