How well did president Andrew Jackson promote democracy?

Answer 1

The movement created by Jackson on his election was an authentic democratic movement dedicated to powerful, radical, egalitarian ideals for white men. Its origins go back to the 1700's, the anti federalists of the 1780's and the 1790's, and from the Jeffersonian Republicans. Another cause was also out of social and economic changes of the early 19th century. There was also a tendency to remain with the 18th century elitist assumptions of the natural aristocracy of propertied men as well as the starting of the 19th century capitalism of corporation's, banks, and other moneyed investments to become the new rich. This lead to the government policy of favoring centralized top down forms of economic development that aided men of means but deepened the inequality of others without the money. A redirection of economic policy resulted and reformers fought to abolish property requirements for voting and office holding. His basic policy was to rid the government of class bias and dismantle the top down credit driven engines of the market revolution. His war on the Second Bank of the United States set the tone. This was an effort to remove the few wealthy unelected private bankers from the nation's economy. To aide the farmer the government began a program of Indian removal from lands that could be sold and gave settler's preemption rights. The ideology was aimed at the voters who felt harmed or cut off from the new markets and proclaimed a political culture predicated on white male equality and had a social vision that any white man would have a chance to secure his economic independence, live free as he saw fit, and live under a system of government cleansed of privilege.