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Jackson Historiography What is the central question about Jackson and his presidency?

Jackson Historiography What is the central question about Jackson and his presidency?. Frederick Jackson Turner. Late 19 th Century The Frontier in American History Jackson’s rise is the rise of the west His appeal is a challenge to the eastern establishment. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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Jackson Historiography What is the central question about Jackson and his presidency?

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  1. Jackson HistoriographyWhat is the central question about Jackson and his presidency?

  2. Frederick Jackson Turner • Late 19th Century • The Frontier in American History • Jackson’s rise is the rise of the west • His appeal is a challenge to the eastern establishment

  3. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. • Early-Mid 20th C; Progressive • The Age of Jackson • Jackson empowered underclasses in their struggle against eastern capitalist oppressers • “Restrain the power of the business community” • Jackson is a liberal economic reformer promoting economic opportunity for previously underrepresented people

  4. Richard Hofstadter • Neocon - Mid 20th C • The American Political Tradition • Jackson favored NEW capitalists – entrepreneurs, not eastern elite • Rising elite vs. Entrenched elite • Removed restraints to (their) econ opp • Jackson is a conservative

  5. Marvin Meyer • Mid 20th C; Ideological • The Jacksonian Persuasion • Neocons are wrong • AJ was wary of industrial growth and hoped for a return to agricultural society • Jackson was a Jeffersonian

  6. New Left • Edward Presson, Michael Rogin, Alexander Saxton • AJ perpetuated a stratified society • His election brought about a new revolution to re-establish white control of continent • Blacks? Indians? Women? You call that democracy?

  7. The legacy of Jackson is his unending contribution to the vitality of our democracy. • Jackson represented equality vs. privilege, liberty against domination, honest work vs. exploit, natural dignity vs. fictitious superiority, patriotic conservatism against alien innovation, progress vs. dead precedent. (virtue vs the new economic changes) The leading books on the Jacksonian period, written by respected historians (The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schlesinger; The Jacksonian Persuasion by Marvin Meyers), do not mention Jackson's Indian policy, but there is much talk in them of tariffs, banking, political parties, political rhetoric. If you look through high school textbooks and elementary school textbooks in American history you will find Jackson the frontiersman, soldier, democrat, man of the people-not Jackson the slaveholder, land speculator, executioner of dissident soldiers, exterminator of Indians.

  8. YOU (feel free to add a picture of yourself in front of books beside your evaluation/interpretation of Jackson)

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