Jacksonian Era

The period in which Andrew Jackson campaigned for and won the presidency was one of significant change in America, for the most part in favor of the "common man." The first and foremost representation of the era as that of the "common man" was the widespread introduction of the universal white manhood suffrage in almost all of the states. Property requisites were being abolished and there was a growing population in the West and on the Western frontier, where the "common man" lay most entrenched. These wide-open voting rights gave an unprecedented voice to the lower classes and the common masses. It is also important to note that these voting rights were not manufactured by the presidency or the federal government but by the individual states themselves. However, politics did not belong universally to the farmers and wage-workers of the Union. In fact, the political spoils system was used and only those people who were in a position to to good for the party would be able to hold office. In many cases, this was not simply the "common man.
As far as economics are concerned, the era of the "common man" both did and did not actually strike the Union. Since Jackson was a states' rights supporter in principle he left the economic decisions up to the individual states in many places. There was no common man revolution in the gentry-dominated deep South nor was this required of that region.