Research On Jacksonian Democracy

Andrew Jackson (1767 to 1845) was a prestigious general and the 7th president of the USA. During his presidential period, he carried through a series of reforms on the fields of politics and economy, which was regarded as Jacksonian Democracy by some historian after War Between the States (Civil War). All the presidential successors, from Martin Van Buren to James Buchanan who was a member of the Democratic Party and last president before Civil War, succeeded more or less in the achievements by his reforms. Afterwards, Jacksonian Democracy existed on the American political stage for more than thirty years so that a profound influence came into being for long and Jackson Epoch was started known as his first name."The Jacksonian democracy" is the practice of "the Jefferson democracy" in the broader scope, and also the development of "the freedom, the equality, and the democracy" in that society which the American advocated. His democracy made the significant contribution to the improvement of the American early liberalism thought which holds the pivotal position in the evolution of the entire US political thinking and from which the afterwards each political ideological trend mostly all might find the source. Therefore, conducting the research to this democracy, and grasping the connotation of this democracy is not only the key to understand the American early political thinking but also the start to analyze and understand the American politics thinking history. On the other hand, although the US's thought culture was deeply influenced by the European tradition, the US also bred the unique political thinking in the early time; one generally accepted mainstream American ideology. So, the research to this thought, in turn, can promote the development of the Western political thought history, and will help us more clearly understand this history.The paper is going to regard Jacksonian Democracy as a research object that is based on selecting and analyzing the first hand data as well as the research achievements by the formers. A research will be systematically put up from the social background of coming into being, meaning and practice, foundation of thoughts, essences and the influences...