Jacksonian Times

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Kohls ideas of the “Age of Jackson” or “The Jacksonian World” were mainly different than the Historical stereotypes of this age. He thinks that the Whigs are the ones had most of the power in politics and the economy of this time. Its not that the Whigs were better than the Jacksonian’s or anything like that they just had an outlook about life that was quiet different than the Jacksonian outlook. Jacksonian’s thought that they were always being used in some way or form, and looked for the bad in everything. Whigs looked for the good in everything and were ready and happy for economic and social change. Jacksonian’s have a big issue with economic inequality throughout this book. They think that the Whigs true cause is to own the economy. Kohl defines a Jacksonian Democrat as a man that is torn between the demands of character and his society. Jacksonians were bound up with conflict inside themselves at this time of history. Although Jacksonian’s did change as society and the economy changed they were always looking for someone or something to point a finger at or talk about. These democrats were always thinking of how they were being misused. The Jacksonian’s had three names for the types of people in their world. “The Jacksonian world was made up of victims and victimizers, the fettered and the free, and outsiders and insiders” (Kohl, 22).
The “victim and victimizers” idea first came about when Jackson wasn’t elected to the House of Representatives in 1824. Jackson was furious when he wasn’t elected, and spoke out about it in his speeches after the election. He thought that Adams and Clay had cheated him out of the House. As Jackson gave more and more speeches his feelings just kept getting stronger and stronger until he finally began to speak out that not only him, but the people had also been cheated in this election. The Jacksonian’s were the farmers and laborers, and things of that n...