Jacksonian Democrats

question 6

Multiple Choice

Jacksonian Democrats

• A) believed in an active federal government that financed internal improvements and promoted the moral health of the nation through antislavery laws.
• B) favored a redistribution of land so that poor farmers would have a chance to become independent.
• C) thought that the federal government should remain small and avoid telling people how to conduct themselves.
• D) embraced the market revolution and saw business and the people's interests as complimentary.
• E) wanted to confront the question of slavery head on so that they could get the issue behind them, but the Whigs were reluctant to discuss it openly.

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