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===Spoils system===

===Spoils system===

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From the mid-1830s to the Civil War, the Democrats were the nation’s majority party, controlling Congress, the presidency and many state offices.<ref>http://www.connerprairie.org/education-research/indiana-history-1860-1900/politics-of-the-1870s-and-1880s</ref> Prior to the election of the notorious [[racist]] and founder of the Democratic party, [[Andrew Jackson]], the federal government was dominated by the [[aristocratic]] upper class, 1% and [[bourgeois]] plantation owners. With the election of Jackson, backwoods hillbillies and common folk became ascendent in government jobs, from the [[U.S. Post Office]] on up, through the spoils system.

From the mid-1830s to the Civil War, the Democrats were the nation’s majority party, controlling Congress, the presidency and many state offices.<ref>http://www.connerprairie.org/education-research/indiana-history-1860-1900/politics-of-the-1870s-and-1880s</ref> Prior to the election of the notorious [[racist]] and founder of the Democratic party, [[Andrew Jackson]], the federal government was dominated by the [[aristocratic]] upper class, 1% and [[bourgeois]] plantation owners. With the election of Jackson, for the first time backwoods hillbillies and common folk had access to opportunities to fill government jobs, from the [[U.S. Post Office]] on up, through the spoils system.

===Reconstruction===

===Reconstruction===