If you had voted for Andrew Jackson for the Presidency during this time, it is likely that you were a "common person," such as a farmer, since this was the demographic that Jackson tried to appeal to.
<h3><u><em>In 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama (now known as Tuskegee University), which grew immensely and focused on training African Americans in agricultural pursuits.</em></u></h3>