Andrew Jackson's Third Party System

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During Andrew Jackson’s presidency, the old Democratic-Republican party split into the Democrats and the Whigs. Jackson was a part of the Democrats which were mainly located in the West and South. They supported the idea of a small national government and a big state government. The Whigs were located in the Northeast and were for a big national government. Those ideas and the different ways the parties interpreted the constitution were what caused the second party system. The Democrats were mostly in the South and the West. The party focused on state government because they were for the people and believed that the people should have the majority of power. They supported the presidency over congress. The Democrats believed in rapid territorial

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