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3 days ago · The foreign relations of the Jacksonian age reflected Andrew Jackson’s own sense of the American “nation” as long victimized by non-white enemies and weak politicians. His goal as president from 1829 to 1837 was to restore white Americans’ “sovereignty,” to empower them against other nations both within and beyond US territory.
2 days ago · These democratic changes were not engineered by Andrew Jackson and his followers, as was once believed. Most of them antedated the emergence of Jackson’s Democratic Party , and in New York , Mississippi , and other states some of the reforms were accomplished over the objections of the Jacksonians.
21 hours ago · The only action with long-term implications was Andrew Jackson’s victory at the Battle of New Orleans—won in January 1815, two weeks after peace had been achieved with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent (Belgium). Jackson’s political reputation rose directly from this battle.
2 days ago · In the first decades of its existence, from 1832 to the mid-1850s (known as the Second Party System), under Presidents Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and James K. Polk, the Democrats usually bested the opposition Whig Party by narrow margins.
21 hours ago · Jackson, whose strength lay in the South and West, referred to his followers simply as Democrats (or as Jacksonian Democrats). Jackson defeated Adams in the 1828 presidential election.
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2 days ago · In the 1824 presidential election, Speaker of the House Henry Clay, Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, and General Andrew Jackson all sought the presidency as members of the Democratic-Republican Party.
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4 days ago · Kamala Harris. As second-in-command, Vice President Kamala Harris would be one of the most obvious picks to replace Biden. However, if Biden were to drop out, his delegates wouldn't automatically transfer to her, and she would still need to win a majority of delegates at the DNC, per NBC News. Though Harris would benefit from name recognition ...
