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Andrew Jackson, One Historian Has Written, Was the "Symbol for an Age

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Andrew Jackson, one historian has written, was the "symbol for an age." How might Jackson be considered symbolic of certain ideas and trends in the early nineteenth century? Can you think of other appropriate symbolic figures for that period?


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