Both Madison and Jackson were attempting to provide safeguards for the citizens in their respective American societies. ... The United States" policies towards Native Americans had historically been to "settle" them and prepare them for integrated life within their new country. Another policy which had been prominent since George Washington's presidency had been the removal of the Native Americans westward, this being seen as a possibility after the Louisiana Purchase conducted under Thomas Jefferson's administration in 1803. The Cherokee nation was considered to be one of the five c...

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Upward mobility was what America was known for, and they believed that was one of the better aspects of America and should be preserved at all costs. ... Yet, with possible help from the influence of Native American culture, the United States had created a society with radically equal economic and political settings for each man from that of Europe. ... One of the worst social atrocities in American history was committed by the Democrats upon the removal of the American Indians from their native lands in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to American territory west of the Mississippi River. ... ...

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In this policy, the government was allowed to bargain contracts with Native American tribes, and reimburse them for their lands. ... (Garraty 787) This in turn made the 112,000 Japanese-Americans, probable enemies. ... Many of the Japanese-Americans refused to surrender to the military. ... This was because people were able to separate the distinction between Italian fascism and Italian-Americans and between the government of Nazi Germany and Americans of German descent. ... As Americans we have suspicion of these people and cast them out of society. ...

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The Jacksonian belief, "New Democracy", promoted suffrage for all white males, but no benefits of individual liberties were given to women or Native, African Americans. ... The rights of free African American were restricted because of the position Jackson held about slavery. ... Jacksonian Democrats were guardians of individual liberties because rights were not gained by groups such as Native Americans, African Americans, and women during his presidency. ...

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Jacksonian Democrats did not only alienate Native Americans, in Phillip Hone's description of riots in "The Diary of Phillip Hone,"" dreadful public warfare was described between Irish and American citizens. ... In Harriett Martineau's report on her 1834 visit to the United States in "Society in America", she describes her, "awe at witnessing, for the first time, the absence of poverty"." ...

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Jacksonian Democrats: DBQ In American history, political parties have often taken responsibility of preserving the foundation in which America rested upon. During the 1820s and 1830s, Jacksonian Democrats heavily maintained the principles of the United States Constitution, protected individual liberties of Americans, and provided equality of economic opportunity for all people, of different classes. ... Martineau was astonished by how intelligent Americans were and how well adjusted they were to society. ... Jacksonians believed in equality between all classes, however, Native American...

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