Jacksonian

American  

[jak-soh-nee-uhn] / dʒækˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Andrew Jackson, his ideas, the period of his presidency, or the political principles or social values associated with him.

   Jacksonian democracy.

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noun

1. a follower of Andrew Jackson.

Jacksonian British  

/ dʒækˈsəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to a person surnamed Jackson, esp Andrew Jackson

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Etymology

Origin of Jacksonian

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25; Jackson + -ian

Example Sentences

It defines a Jacksonian as having a narrow conception of the U.S. national interest: protection of its territory, its people, its hard assets and its commercial interests overseas.

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

Robert Burns, who practiced medicine and was a Jacksonian, served as a U.S. representative from 1833-1837.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2022

But Webster, though he was really on most questions even more antagonistic to the ideas of the Jacksonian school, always remained personally on good terms with its leaders.

From Thomas Hart Benton by Roosevelt, Theodore