Andrew Jackson ir arguably the America’s Original Anti-Establishment Candidate. Several important changes were taking place during the 1830s, including strong pro-slavery moments and expansionist movements that pushed for annexation of tribal territory.
Jackson supported both these movements - being himself a wealthy slave owner. However, Jackson’s populism appeared most clearly in his policy toward the banking and transportation corporations that were transforming the American economy at the dawn of industrialization.
Under the Jacksonian democracy, corporate charters, which were valuable privileges distributed by legislatures, and state governments often shared corporate ownership with private investors, were no longer acceptable. Jackson feared that public investments offered unearned advantages to insiders that would surely lead to corruption. He was keen to end the "monopoly" of government by elites.
Other key points of the Jacksonian democracy were expanded suffrage, manifest destiny, patronage and laissez-faire economics.
