What about Andrew Jackson is especially democratic?

“What about Andrew Jackson is especially democratic?” or “I’ve been told all my life that African Americans, Native Americans, and women were shut out of the political process. Did these marginalized groups have any reason to hope they would be included in the so-called ‘Era of the Common Man?'” Perhaps a student has never thought about or even heard about, developments being discussed in an EOU topic. When that happens, students should examine why that is. For example in Week 2, we will be discussing the English colonization of North America. If a student is unfamiliar with such phenomena as racist violence against Native Americans, then they should ask of themselves and their classmates “Why don’t we talk more about this development in U.S. history?” Did you know there were SJWs in the early 19th century (and I’m not just talking about me, Stephen James Watson, a literal S.J.W.)? Folks surveyed the scene after decades of upheaval and noticed major problems in society from poverty to alcoholism. However, at the top of the list was slavery. I only bring this up because I feel like it is common for Americans to think about any history before they were born as a relatively chill time when there were no problems and everybody got along. Remember to make your question open-ended. In other words, a question like “Who was the first President of the United States?” has a definite answer and therefore is not open-ended. An open-ended question is something along the lines of “How did European colonizers view the indigenous people of the Americas when they first arrived in the 15th and 16th centuries?”

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