DBQ #4
The Jacksonian Democrats, the supporters and follower of Andrew Jackson were a party system that believed in greater democracy for the common man; their platform consisted of political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity, however, their doings from 1820 through 1830 show otherwise. The political democracy was not as the Jacksonians placed it to be, citizens were being influenced by the prejudice of itś head leader Andrew Jackson. Although, Andrew Jackson and his followers the Jacksonians, pledge that they would enforce equality, the complete opposite was being done; since the African Americans and the Indians were not receiving the same conditions as the white citizens. Not only were the Jacksonians, not…show more content… The political democracy was there, but it was also on the edge of control with the large amount of outside influence and corruption in the government. While there were political issues there were also, issues with equality, the Jacksonians argued that they wanted equality for all and that everyone should have the same treatment as the other, however, the Native Americans and the African Americans also part of that society were not receiving the simultaneous action. With the Jacksonians failing to follow through some of the important platforms they had set, they also failed to follow, individual liberty, with them trying to remove pamphlets endorsing the abolition of slavery, taken the right of the freedom of the people to express their thoughts and emotions about the situation. The Jacksonians produced the perfect cover up, to create false hope for the individuals, but they did not follow through with all the goals they had set, hurting the public with the chaos and corruption it provided, it brought more hostility than a greater
