Examples of Andrew Jackson being a champion of the people?
I believe he walked to his inauguration. Instead of going in a carriage with all the pomp and circumstance, the President decided to walk on foot, showing his touch with the common man.
There was great significance in the election of Jackson in 1828. A new generation was growing up under new economic and social conditions. They felt great confidence in themselves and great independence. They despised tradition and Old World ways and notions; and they accepted the Jeffersonian dogmas, not only as maxims, but as social forces -- the causes of the material prosperity of the country. By this generation, therefore, Jackson was recognized as a man after their own heart. They liked him because he was vigorous, brusque, uncouth, relentless, straightforward and open. They made him president in 1828, and he fulfilled all their expectations... http://www.nndb.com/people/654/000026576/
That website doesn't necessarily help :(
thats where I got the text i posted, usually cite my sources, sometimes there is extra info, but I point that out if I think so
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