What was Andrew Jackson's appeal to the common people?

Answer 1

Jackson generally favored policies that benefitted the common man (who were mostly farmers) and was against interests of the easterm merchant classes. Killing the Bank of the US was the most well known act against eastern bankers, who were hated by western and southern farmers. He supported low tariffs and opening up more lands in the west to farming.

As far as "reforms" Jackson's main reform was that of the banking system, by using a series of pet banks to replace the Bank of the US. He also got rid of a large number of political elites in federal jobs to replace with men who favored empowering small farmers.
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Answer 2

Andrew Jackson related to the common man. He considered himself as the spokesperson for the common man. Jackson was a self-made man who declared education an unnecessary requirement for political leadership.

Answer 3

Before and during his explicit involvement in presidential politics, Andrew Jackson's appeal to the common people of America was based upon his success as a soldier. With a remarkable history of achievement to show for his involvements in battles during numerous conflicts, Jackson had steadily grown in the American imagination as a "war hero" of great stature.

Answer 4

He fought his way to leadership and wealth in a frontier society, and his success established a bond between him and the common people that was never broken. Small farmers, laborers, mechanics, and many other Americans struggling to better themselves looked to Jackson for leadership.

Jackson's followers considered themselves the party of the people and denounced their political opponents, the National Republicans and later the Whigs, as aristocrats. In fact, Jacksonian leaders were nearly all as wealthy, and as different from the common people, as the Whigs. For all of Jackson's talk about helping working people, his policies accomplished little for them. His banking policies destabilized the nation's currency and, some historians think, were designed to help bankers friendly to his Democratic Party.

However benevolent Jackson may have been toward blacks and Native Americans in his personal life, they clearly were not included in the "common people" he sought to aid in his public life. His Native American policy deprived America's original peoples of millions of acres despite prior treaties and the disapproval of the Supreme Court of the United States. His party promoted the interests of slaveholders and thereby helped to delay a solution to the slavery question until it erupted into the Civil War in 1861.

Jackson left a legacy of a strong presidency. Since his time it has been commonplace for presidents to repeat his assertion that the president represents the will of the people better than Congress does. His example has also made it mandatory for presidents, as well as other American politicians, to appeal to the people at large rather than special interests.

Answer 5

he believed that the ordinary people should participate in their government instead of just selecting a few to participate.

Answer 6

he kissed his lips