Jacksonian era (jan 1, 1828 – jan 1, 1854)

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Political philosophy in the US that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21 BUT not women, Native Americans and African-Americans, and restructured a number of federal institutions.

Seen as a period of democratization -> era of the "Common Man" .
Period of redefinition of the American republic as a white Protestant country -> under apparent democratization -> rise of reformist movements (abolitionists, women's rights, Indian rights and workers rights' advocates). = William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, etc.

Questioning ot the role of ethnic minorities within the US.

Development of pseudo-scientific racism and idea of "now colonization" for free Blacks and Native Americans outside the limits of the American Republic.

This period lasted roughly from Jackson's 1828 election as president until slavery became the dominiant issue with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and the political repercussions of the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American Politics.

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