Jacksonian democracy

Cultural  

1. A movement for more democracy in American government in the 1830s. Led by President Andrew Jackson, this movement championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation. Jacksonian democracy was aided by the strong spirit of equality among the people of the newer settlements in the South and West. It was also aided by the extension of the vote in eastern states to men without property; in the early days of the United States, many places had allowed only male property owners to vote. (Compare Jeffersonian democracy.)

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Example Sentences

And at points, such as during the age of Jacksonian democracy, democratic expansion for some demanded democratic retrenchment for others.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2022

So for example, the Thomsonian medical freedom movement was very closely associated with Jacksonian democracy.

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2021

The first father-and-son presidents are regarded as obstructionists, stuffed shirts, surly malcontents who were resistant in turn to Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019

“A great democratic revolution is going on amongst us,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1835, in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of Jacksonian democracy in America.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2018

But in the era of Jacksonian democracy, Henry Clay and his followers engaged the great Tennesseean in a fierce political struggle out of which was born the rival Whig and Democratic parties.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson