Greetings to all other "citizen journalists", as Helium likes to call us writers. I am a high school student who, of course (since I have found this site), has a passion for writing of all types, prose or verse. As for finding a suitable environment with others of similar interests, I believe I have found it here on Helium. I hope to benefit from the true purpose of this site: the exchange of opinions and ideas. And likewise, I wish to be an active contributor to that goal as often as I can.

My passion is ...

sports, in a broader spectrum, physical activity.

I know too much about ...

nothing. Knowledge is never wasteful.

My parents always told me ...

to pursue my own goals and never cease unless I desired to.

My childhood ambition ...

was to travel back in history (this ambition still exists).

My favorite memory ...

is winning the Memorial Day State Championships in baseball in 2004.

Why I write ...

I write to express my ideas and at the same time explore myself.

My inspiration ...

consists of any unlikely triumphs and causes that may not get the attention they deserve.

Arts & Humanities > 19th Century US History Assessing Jacksonian Democracy

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In the so-called "Revolution of 1828", Andrew Jackson became president and the common people thus gained a voice in government. This type of "bloodless revolution" accurately described the quick and easy change in government, and the new views ushered in with the Jacksonian Democrats. This new political party prided themselves in protecting the Constitution and championing ideals of political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. Certainly the Jacksonian Democrats protected equal economic opportunity and political democracy, but their self-promoted identity as...

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