“Land-poor white rural people saw Jackson as the man who would save them, making land available to them by ridding it of Indians, thereby setting the pattern of the dance between poor and rich US Americans ever since under the guise of equality and opportunity...Jackson was easily reelected in 1832, although landless settlers had acquired very little land, and what little they seized was soon lost to speculators”
— Nov 03, 2025 10:19AM
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