Johnson unapologetically exemplifies the Jacksonion democracy as one of the most advanced and inclusive in the world at the time, one that exerted its efforts to expand education and subsequently give people more opportunities. However, multitudes of people were legally unable to vote or express their …show more content…
In fact, as early as the 16th century, to assuage southern authorities’ anxieties of an uprising, they enacted slave codes, laws aimed to maintain control of slaves and these laws eventually prohibited slaves from learning to read or write (Race, Slavery and the Law in Colonial Virginia). In 1830, Native Americans were “being pushed off their lands” by President Jackson’s Indian Removal Act (Zinn, pg. 217), and even a decade after Jackson’s presidential term ended, women were still being “denied the facilities to a thorough education” (Declaration of Sentiments of the Seneca Falls Convention)
In conclusion, you could define the era surrounding the birth of democracy as inclusive, but only if you exclude black slaves, Native Americans, women and the working class. However, that form of an “inclusive democracy” is indicative of a nation for the rich, rather than one for the