Jackson Administrations - Jackson Becomes President
The Andrew Jackson Administrations
Andrew Jackson presided over one of the most remarkable periods of political change in U.S. history, in which circumstances seemed destined to provide wealth and political opportunity to the many, instead of an aristocratic few. Jackson's rise to power contributed to the birth of the Democratic Party, and through his insistence that the president alone represented the will of the whole nation, he signaled a shift in U.S. government toward a strong executive.
Jackson Becomes President
The Campaign of 1828
In the early nineteenth century the nation found its way of life being reshaped by a number of factors: the surge of settlers into the western United States, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the advent of great U.S. cities, and dramatic...
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