HIST 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jacksonian Democracy, Working Mass, Seventeenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
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Heart -class evangelicals such as charles finney preached a reformed protestantism based on lesson free agency and the feeling that after the experience of conversion , christians would make themselves and the humanity better. Because most american english saw buck private property as requisite to economic independency , they were unlikely to be attracted to utopian communitites. Antebellum whig founded supporters among those who gained little from the capitalist revolution and had no use for the moral agenda of populist. Jacksonian democracy reconciled its defense of both economic populism and capitalism by means of free- marketplace competition. "the ballot corner is the cof n of social class awareness " insofar as working mass believed that political democracy can control the economic and political power of capitalists. In order to make the senate more democratic, the constitution mandated that senator be directly elected every deuce twelvemonth s by all voters deemed eligible within each state.
