Why Was The Presidential Election Of 1828 A Democratic Revolution?

The presidential election of 1828 can be described as a “Democratic Revolution” because of the contrasts between itself and the previous election of 1824. Firstly, the graph from Thursday’s class shows us a giant increase in percentage of voters from 1824-28 (1). When compared to a graph of the US population we can see that these timeframes do not align in such a way as to dismiss the percentage increase of voters (below). In fact, there has never been a point where the U.S. population has dropped so suddenly to explain such a rise. The question is why? Why was there a revolutionary increase in the number of voters? Because, with the combination of the reinstatement of the two party system, and there being only two candidates one from both