Word: jacksonianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your story alleges that I said that "all periods of reform" in the U.S. have "eventually failed." In fact, at some length I drew a distinction between the earlier Revolutionary and Jacksonian periods of reform, which were very uuccessful, and the later Progressive and contemporary periods of reform, which have been much less successful...
...Rising crime during a period of rising prosperity was a profound shock, particularly following an era of political calm, apparent national unity, and widespread optimism about the strength and virtue of American society. No doubt Americans of the 1830s were equally shocked when the tumult and licentiousness of the Jacksonian era followed on the remembered-and perhaps exaggerated-heroics of the Revolutionary years...
Huntington compared the present politcal situation in the United States to the Jacksonian and Progressive periods. All were periods of reform which eventually failed, he said...
Depraved Man. Such measures were quite revolutionary compared with what preceded them, as David Rothman, an associate professor of history at Columbia University, documents in this tightly focused study of the treatment of "deviant" behavior in Jacksonian America. During the colonial and post-Revolutionary periods, older ideologies had prevailed. Then it was held that deviance was caused by the depraved nature of man, not society. God had so ordained, and John Calvin so maintained. Punishments did not so much fit the crime as the criminal. A man of property would usually be fined; a man without property was whipped. Since...