The age of Jackson

Prologue: 1829

End of Arcadia

Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience

Background for revolution

The first year

The men around the president

Beginnings of the Bank War

Veto

Counterattack

Hard money

Credo of the workingmen

Stirrings in the Bay State

George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts

Radicalism in New York

Rise of the Locofocos

The pattern of Locofocoism

The third term

Panic

Divorce of bank and state

The Southern dilemma

Radicalism at high water

The Whig counterreformation

1840

Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement

Jacksonian democracy and the law

Jacksonian democracy and industrialism

Jacksonian democracy and religion

Jacksonian democracy and utopia

Jacksonian democracy and literature

Tyler too

Minorities and majorities

Cloud on the horizon

Gathering of the storm

Free Soil

The storm approaches

"Our federal union

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Traditions of democracy.