analyze the extent to which 2 of the following influenced the development of equality between 1763 and 1863.?

Question

american revolution
jacksonian political reform
romantic social reform
Here's what i question:
was the jacksonian reform jackson presidency and him creating the spoils system
was the romantic social reform the intellectual movement involving Thoreau--how does that relate to equality??

Answer 1

It would help to know from what type of class this question originates. None of these were particularly driving on the expansion of equality. The romantic social reform would be better served by looking at Lysander Spooner that Thoreau. Jackson was, if anything someone who narrowed the expansion of equality (re:the trail of tears). At best you can select the revolution, but that is only a narrow and limited view of equality.

Equality should be more correctly viewed as individual rights and these evolved over some 3,000 years for Celtic Village Law in to the foundation of English Common Law (prior to 1066) which was first formalized in 1215 with the 'first' Great Charter known as Magna Carta.

This Common Law evolved with the works of many people, notably Locke, Smith, and Montesquieu ultimately becoming the underlying foundation of the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights [1791].

It is an interesting 100 years that was selected because until 1819 individual rights continued to expand and subsequent to that year began to contract as the federal government initiated and expanded its intrusions on individual rights.

Certainly the American War of the 1860s expanded such individual rights due to the ending of slavery, but that would not be formalized until the ratification of the 13th Amendment [1865]. Then with the application of the 14th Amendment [1868] those individual rights began to erode as that allowed for the federal government to apply the Articles of the Bill of Rights (particularly the first eight) to the States when they were specifically intended for the federal government and only the federal government.

I doubt that these words are what your teacher wants to hear so while they represent the facts, if I were you I would just pick the Revolution and romantic social reform and make up some things about it because that will get you a grade if not the truth.