Jacksonism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Jacksonism
Example Sentences
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Is it not striking that he turns away from the universities and the traditional culture of New England and looks towards the Jacksonism of the new West to create a new and native American literature?
From The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures by Perry, Bliss
Unlike many of his friends, he was not repelled by the "Jacksonism of the West"; he rated it a wholesome, vivifying force in our national thought and life.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss
His brother, John Bell, who was governor some years after him, and beaten in 1829 by the first successful foray of Jacksonism, removed soon after to Massachusetts, where he died.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Here individualism, Andrew Jacksonism, will forever prevail, and American standardization can never prevail.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Lindsay, Vachel
The raw Jacksonism of the West seemed to be gaining upon the older civilizations represented by Virginia and Massachusetts.
From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss
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