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Beginning in the 1820s, a powerful movement celebrating the common person and promoting the “New Democracy” transformed the earlier elitist character of American politics.
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In American political culture, the 1820s mark the beginning of what is commonly known as Jacksonian democracy. This was distinct from the so-called Jeffersonian democracy of the previous thirty years. Jeffersonian democrats decried the notion of inherited elitism, but they believed that well-educated men should run the American government. Conversely, Andrew Jackson, the seventh American president, was celebrated as a common man, and Jacksonian democrats accused their Jeffersonian counterparts of being culturally elitist.