America During the Jacksonian Era

In America durning the Jacksonian era, and egalitarian, democratic culture emerged. Male suffrage was extended to include ever larger portions of the public. The lines between Elites and the commoners began to disappear. A higher percentege of the eligiable voters voted than ever before, and they increasingly voted for men they perceived as their equals. Expanding across the Appalachian mountians, the nation bagan to change in profound ways. The young states of Kuntucky, and Tennasee, …

…the revolutionary ideals that we are all equal, men began to ask why they too could not be rich. Thus we begin to see the restlessness, and searching for something better that Tocqueville so eloquently exspounds, upon. Symbolic of the egalitarianism of the day, poor manners abounded. For to show respect, was viewed as some sort of admittance of a saperiortity. As a result, the spitting of Tobacco became endemic, as ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** N/A