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Was Andrew Jackson democratic? That question will be answered in this paper. Other things that will come up are whether the spoil system made the country more democratic or not. The overall of everything that you will see in this paper are how Jackson's actions and intentions impacted how the U.S. is democratic. In this paper you will see how Jackson made the U.S. democratic. This is everything you will see in the following paragraphs.

Did the spoil system make the country more democratic? Well it is just your luck that you will learn that in this paragraph. Here is some background history on the spoil system. A spoil system is an informal practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as a incentive to keep working for the party- as opposed to a system of awarding offices on the basis of some measure of merit independent political activity. Many presidents after Jackson continued the use of the spoils system. President Abraham Lincoln used the system to support his Republican Party, United States Republican Party, and the Union American Civil War effort. President Jackson's actions were to get rid of people that worked in the office for a long period of time and bring in people that Jackson knew and the kind of peope that were like him. Jackson also wanted to let people that never experinced working in a big office that experince and that is just what he did. Jackson's intentions were that he never wanted people to get hurt and kill eachother just for a job into office. When Jackson found out bout what was going on he wanted to change that and he sat down with people that would make good canidates and looked into their backgrounds and f they were good they would get a job into office. Because Jackson thought that "no one man has anymore rights to a (government job) than another" he started giving jobs to peple that he though deserved them. This was the start of the spoil system and the reason why the United States is demogratic.

Should we judge Jackson by his actions or intentions? I think we should judge Jackson by his actions because he should of done better to give people jobs in the government because back then it was a big deal to get a government job. But Jackson though that he was doing a good job of gving people a government job but, things got out of hand and people were getting hurt over wanting a job with the government. I think that the things that Jackson was trying to do was just give people a job that didn't have one or that wanted a job with the government. This is why the United States is democratic because of how the spoil system worked out. Also once Jackson became president he wanted to do things his way and nobody could stop him. Things got out of hand when he wanted to start giving jobs to people that could not get them before.