Between the years of 1825-1850, democratic ideals were greatly expanded by reform movements in the United States. These were the years of the Jacksonian Democracy, which mainly stressed universal manhood suffrage, public education, majority rule and the abolition of debtor prisons. President Jackson...
In 1789, George Washington became the 1st president of todays United States. He was also the 1st president under the Constitution. George Washington and the Federalists had a strong belief in this political philosophy, where the national government would have enough power in order to be respected an...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
In the late 1840s and early 1850s, sectional struggles were renewed as northerners and southerners debated over issues concerning the acquisition of territories and the expansion of slavery into such territories. Southern fears mounted at the prospect of a free Mexican Cession territory. Facing a cr...
Foreign Policy With the world balancing on the edge of destruction, foreign relationships are extremely important to the United States of America. The United States is fully recognized as the most powerful nation on the planet earth, and with that power comes a definitive sense of responsibility. Th...
An ambiguous, controversial concept, Jacksonian Democracy in the strictest sense refers simply to the ascendancy of Andrew Jackson and the Democratic party after 1828. More loosely, it alludes to the entire range of democratic reforms that proceeded alongside the Jacksonians' triumph "from expanding the suffrage to restructuring federal institutions. From another angle, however, Jacksonianism appears as a political impulse tied to slavery, the subjugation of Native Americans, and the celebration of white supremacy "so much so that some scholars have dismissed the phrase "Jackson...
