But the changes in the electoral system between 1824 and 1828 were to some degree due to the belief that the Eastern elites had conspired to rob Jackson of the Presidency in 1824. While it easily could have been someone else, Jackson was the catalyst for those changes happening more rapidly than otherwise would have been the case.
Baloney.
"It is a myth that most obstacles to the suffrage were removed only after the emergence of Andrew Jackson and his party. Well before Jackson's election most states had lifted most restrictions on the suffrage of white male citizens or taxpayers.
Jackson was the beneficiary rather than the initiator of these reforms. ...
"As has been indicated, the important changes in the suffrage antedated the appearance of Jackson and his party. In most case, in fact, they owed nothing to them while in New York State in the early 1820s it was necessary to overcome the opposition of the party that later became the Jacksonian Democrats. By 1824 important restrictions on the vote of white adult males still obtained only in Rhode Island, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Virginia."
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Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics, Edward Pessen, page 150-151
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