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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Jacksonian Democracy"”.
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Jacksonian Democracy and the Electoral College: Politics and Reform in the Method of Selecting Presidential Electors, 1824-1833
The Electoral College and Jacksonian Democracy are two subjects that have been studied extensively. Taken together, however, little has been written on how the method of choosing presidential electors during the Age of Jackson changed. Although many historians have written on the development of …
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Freemasons in government in the United States, 1776-1840.
… of Europe. By the close of the "Period of Jacksonian Democracy" both Mason and non-Mason had built a government sound enough so that the new nation was destined to become a power second to none in the world.
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"'Under the banner of the democratic principle': John Louis O'Sullivan, the democracy and the ""Democratic Review"""
… O'Sullivan was a leading exponent of ""romantic democracy,"" a world view that perceived the hand of Providence in the workings and will of the majority. Through his writings for the magazine and newspaper, O'Sullivan gave eloquent expression to the tenets of the radical Jacksonian …
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At the Confluence of Science and Power: Water Struggles of New Orleans in the Nineteenth Century
… empire, from the age of Jefferson to the era of Jacksonian democracy, during the Civil War and Reconstruction, through the dawn of Progressivism: New Orleans confronted the problems of flood prevention, drainage, the omni-present need for a dependable water source for its citizens, and eventually …
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This Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism, and the Silence of Slavery
… stunted the breadth of what is commonly called Jacksonian democracy. As Democrats increasingly articulated ambitions over the rest of the continent - John Quincy Adams disgustedly condemned their agenda as promulgating a "culture of conquest" - mainstream Whigs remained largely silent over this …
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The growth and development of American satire: 1630-1895
… Satire underwent a crisis of authority and Jacksonian democracy was accompanied by works in which the gross materialism of the mob depicted in the attack undermined the democratic ideals the satires asserted. This was accompanied by an increasing Americanization of language, character and …
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Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina
… of citizenship in the early republic and Jacksonian periods. But on the other hand, some North Carolina white slaveholders saw free people of color as instigators of slave uprisings and a threat to their social order and economic system. As convention delegates debated disfranchisement, …