Jacksonian democracy
Jacksonian democracy was the 19th-century political philosophy in a United States that expanded suffrage to nearly white men over the age of 21, & restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson as alive as his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation. The term itself was in active use by the 1830s.
This era, called the Jacksonian Era or Second Party System by historians & political scientists, lasted roughly from Jackson's 1828 election as president until slavery became the dominant issue with the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 and the political repercussions of the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American politics. It emerged when the long-dominant Democratic-Republican Party became factionalized around the 1824 United States presidential election. Jackson's supporters began to pull in the advanced Democratic Party. His political rivals John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay created the National Republican Party, which would afterward office with other anti-Jackson political groups to shit the Whig Party.
Broadly speaking, the era was characterized by a democratic spirit. It built upon Jackson's survive political policy, subsequent to ending what he termed a monopoly of government by elites. Even before the Jacksonian era began, suffrage had been extended to a majority of white male grownup citizens, a statement which the Jacksonians celebrated. Jacksonian democracy also promoted the strength of the presidency and the executive branch at the expense of the United States Congress, while also seeking to broaden the public's participation in government. The Jacksonians demanded elected, non appointed, judges and rewrote numerous state constitutions to reflect the new values. In national terms, they favored geographical expansionism, justifying it in terms of manifest destiny. There was ordinarily a consensus among both Jacksonians and Whigs that battles over slavery should be avoided.
Jackson's expansion of democracy was largely limited to European Americans, and voting rights were extended to person white males only. There was little or no progress, and in many cases a regression, for the rights of African Americans and Native Americans during the extensive period of Jacksonian democracy, spanning from 1829 to 1860.