How did race shape the nature of democracy in the Jacksonian era?
What will be an ideal response?
Jackson's policies toward African-Americans and Native Americans stood in direct opposition to his espoused democratic ideals. Jackson allowed Northern states to rewrite their constitutions to significantly limit the suffrage rights of free African-Americans. Jackson treated Native Americans like conquered subjects, which was consistent with his belief that they were culturally inferior to whites. Jackson was only concerned with the needs of white settlers. After gold was discovered on their land, even the Cherokee, who had adopted Western culture, were given the choice to relocate or be reduced to the status of free African Americans in the South. Jacksonian democracy was democracy for white men only; all other groups were given few, if any, rights.
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The largest and lowest social group in medieval society was the one on whose labor the welfare of all the others depended: the agrarian ___________
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