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Jacksonian Democracy/Era of the Common Man (Politics (Open inauguration…
Jacksonian Democracy/Era of the Common Man
Economics
Tariff of Abominations: written into law in 1828 and was preceeded by the Tariff of 1824 which was not written into law. The 1828 tariff was called the Tariff of Abominations.
equality of opportunity/ rich man dis on poor people
No Government licence for professions
There was the introduction of reputation for everyone. If you were bad people would leave your business if you did well clients would flock to you.
Language
Noah Webster created American dictionary
Added English words that were not there before
American English
Changed the spellings to more American spellings
Added definitions to the words
Politics
Open inauguration and parties at the White House
Campaigned in every state, selected by popular vote
Poor white male vote increase 27-81%
caucuses were replaced with national conventions
Property requirements for voting lowered
parties restricted the temptation to abuse power
rise of the two party system
Literacy went up
Arts
pictures of everyday American life
Sculptures were more of things happening not just busts
Paintings (more Americana) were mass produced
Greek buildings were copied to bring the idea of the democracy here
Classic literature switched to simple literature
copied the greek pillars, more squared because they were faster to build as well as cheaper.