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20 POINTS. What roles did the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have in shaping American politics and identity?

Answer 1

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Andrew Jackson set the executive branch on an equal footing  with Congress in terms of power and ability to shape law and government policies. Thomas Jefferson had conflict with John Adams and wanted to only focus on freedom and stuff like that.

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Answer 2

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Andrew Jackson (1829-1833) and (1833-1837), helpedestablish the Indian removal act, nullification crisis, Old Hickory," first southern/ westernpresident," President for the common man," pet banks, spoils system, specie circular, trail oftears, Henry Clay Flectural Process. As a politician, Jefferson was a leading proponent of thephilosophy of the Enlightenment, which stressed individual rights and individual logic as thebasis of moral society. To Jefferson, this meant that a good government needed to protect therights of the people and along with similarly-minded revolutionaries, he helped establish that theAmerican government would be a Democratic Republic, in which people voted onrepresentatives to run the government. That's the system we still use today. He put these ideasinto the Declaration of Independence, most famously summed up in the phrase, ''We hold thesetruths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.''

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