The people who made up the gentry in colonial society were Southern plantation owners who were often young sons of British landowners. These people regularly implemented the British system in the southern colonies, meaning they had a large personnel. In the northeastern colonies, these were often families who established Boston and Harvard in Massachusetts and Yale in Connecticut.
On July 4, 1826, less than two years before "King Andrew" ascended to the "throne," the Yankee John Adams and the aristocratic Virginian Thomas Jefferson both passed away. America's Revolutionary generation was gone. With them went the last vestiges of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican <span>parties.</span>
"Era of Good Feelings," I believe. Political differences seemed to disappear and Federalist Party seemed almost nonexistent. Nobody cared about party system and everyone got along, which is basically what Washington would've wanted from the beginning.
Not much really.
The government did not really govern the big business and they could basically do what they pleased. But as the journalists and writers and the workers started bringing all the bad things the big businesses were doing to the light of day the government started intervening just a little. A landmark law passed at the time would be the <span> Sherman Act that was against the trusts. </span>
