jacksonian
Speech parts
1. jacksonian - Noun
2. jacksonian - Adjective
Meaning
a follower of Andrew Jackson or his ideas
of or pertaining to Andrew Jackson or his presidency or his concepts of popular democracy
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Examples
American Quarterly Vol. 5 No. 1 (Spring, 1953) in Essays on Jacksonian America, Ed. Frank Otto Gatell.
But he remained ill at ease with his adopted country’s Jacksonian populism.
It included many active Protestants, and voiced a moralistic opposition to the Jacksonian Indian removal policies.
Shrewd Adams supporters determined to use the strong anti-Masonic feeling to create a new party in opposition to the rising Jacksonian Democracy nationally, and the Albany Regency political organization of Martin Van Buren in New York.
Nagel argues that Adams' political problems were the result of an unusually hostile Jacksonian faction, and Adams' own dislike of the office.
His Jacksonian opponents, however, distrusted the federal government and opposed all federal aid for internal improvements and they again frustrated Clay's plan.