The involvement of Andrew Jackson in politics from 1824 until 1848 was highly regarded as the era of the common man. The reason for being regarded as such was because of the economic developments, political transformations, and reform movements that took place during this time greatly effecting the common population of the United States. Although at the time the common man was considered to be the white males of the population. The Jacksonian Period was a prosperous time for the early United States and helped bring together some of the common people of the population at the time.
A major economic development during the Jacksonian Era was Andrew Jacksons so called war on The Bank of the United States. Jackson often referred to the bank as a …show more content…
In terms of how it expanded democracy the age of Jackson drastically increased the voting amounts within the United States. However this was not all of Jacksons doing because until this time in the 1820s most Americans still did not have the right to suffrage even though we were a country founded on a government being made for and by the people. This change in voting rights first came with the new states in the west starting with Ohio. This was done when these new states became a part of the union and adopted a constitution that allowed all adult white males the right to vote and did not limit them to be land owners or tax payers. This caused fear from states in the east that their population would move to these newly founded states and reduce their representation in the House of Representatives. So these states in the east dropped their requirements for voters to be either land owning or tax payers. This greatly affected the course of the 1832 election with Jackson becoming President and destroying the Bank of the United …show more content…
This crisis began in 1832 where South Carolina did not agree with a tariff that did not aid them from the tariff of abominations that was passed in 1828. To alleviate the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 the state legislator of South Carolina fought to nullify both congressional acts by making it illegal to collect taxes on both of these tariffs. But Jackson saw this as treason towards the United States and armed forts in South Carolina and also positioned a warship in Charleston. In early 1833 congress met again and Jackson quickly put forward a bill that allowed the federal government to use military actions to make sure that federal laws are obeyed at the state and local levels and violence between states and federal governments soon became a reality. A compromise was soon reached though when Henry Clay was elected to the Senate. Clay proposed a compromise that would diminish the tariff back to its form in 1816 by 1842, and on March 1, 1833 both the compromise and the force bill were put into law in the federal government. Henry Clay quick thinking compromise helped to divert a possible conflict between the state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United
A major economic development during the Jacksonian Era was Andrew Jacksons so called war on The Bank of the United States. Jackson often referred to the bank as a …show more content…
In terms of how it expanded democracy the age of Jackson drastically increased the voting amounts within the United States. However this was not all of Jacksons doing because until this time in the 1820s most Americans still did not have the right to suffrage even though we were a country founded on a government being made for and by the people. This change in voting rights first came with the new states in the west starting with Ohio. This was done when these new states became a part of the union and adopted a constitution that allowed all adult white males the right to vote and did not limit them to be land owners or tax payers. This caused fear from states in the east that their population would move to these newly founded states and reduce their representation in the House of Representatives. So these states in the east dropped their requirements for voters to be either land owning or tax payers. This greatly affected the course of the 1832 election with Jackson becoming President and destroying the Bank of the United …show more content…
This crisis began in 1832 where South Carolina did not agree with a tariff that did not aid them from the tariff of abominations that was passed in 1828. To alleviate the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 the state legislator of South Carolina fought to nullify both congressional acts by making it illegal to collect taxes on both of these tariffs. But Jackson saw this as treason towards the United States and armed forts in South Carolina and also positioned a warship in Charleston. In early 1833 congress met again and Jackson quickly put forward a bill that allowed the federal government to use military actions to make sure that federal laws are obeyed at the state and local levels and violence between states and federal governments soon became a reality. A compromise was soon reached though when Henry Clay was elected to the Senate. Clay proposed a compromise that would diminish the tariff back to its form in 1816 by 1842, and on March 1, 1833 both the compromise and the force bill were put into law in the federal government. Henry Clay quick thinking compromise helped to divert a possible conflict between the state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United