About the lecture

In this module, we look at Andrew Jackson and the rise of the Democratic Party - the first modern political party in the United States. Despite losing the 1824 election, Jackson was able to use his appeal to the American “common man” to win the 1828 election. Jackson and his political ally Martin Van Buren were able to use mass politics to get the newly enfranchised to vote for him.

About the lecturer

Professor Sean Adams is the Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of History at the University of Florida. He specialises in the history of American capitalism, as well as the history of energy. He is the author of a number of books on 19th century US History including - Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the 19th Century (Johns Hopkins, 2014); Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004); The American Coal Industry, 1789-1902 (2013); A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson (2013); and The Early American Republic: A Documentary History (2009).