Jacksonian
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Jacksonian
Example Sentences
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A grim 19th-century commentary on nature, civilization and Jacksonian America, the sequence doubles as the exhibition’s interrogation of the current democratic moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
A Jacksonian does not dream of implanting “American values” on foreign soil.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
Number 4, "William Henry Harrison: His Life and Times" is a real book, but it's by James A. Green, not by Robert Remini, a well-known historian of the Jacksonian age.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
Instead, these states had the crackling entrepreneurial energy that Alexis de Tocqueville, floating down the Ohio in Jacksonian America, saw to his right, in Ohio, but not to his left, in slaveholding Kentucky.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
But at the end he had become a Jacksonian Democrat, and during the rest of his political career he figured as the most prominent representative of the Jacksonian Democracy in the Senate.
From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore
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