HIST 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Five Civilized Tribes, Jacksonian Democracy, Wedge Issue
6 Apr 2018
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Jackson and his colleagues only created fully developed policies as they went along, largely in response to events. Eliminating concentrations of power & wealth, if accumulated by government means. Society of americans that regarded politics as foundational. If politics are corrupted, everything else will be too. Want to defuse power the monopolies had. Potus closest to the people and entitled to interpret legislation, enact their will. Believed the president was most democratically legitimate, as it is representative of all the people from being nationally voted in. Does not believe federal government is unnecessary. This party does not embrace state"s rights. Jackson radically changed us policy toward native peoples. Did not believe in assimilation as a solution. He forcibly removed the indians from their land instead. Not interested in honoring treaties granting native groups rights to land east of the mississippi. Wanted clean path for to move everyone out of the way of white.
