What roles did the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson have in shaping American politics and identity?

Andrew Jackson set the executive branch on an equal footing  with Congress in terms of power and ability to shape law and government policies. Thomas Jefferson had conflict with John Adams and wanted to only focus on freedom and stuff like that.

Explanation:

Andrew Jackson was the first western President, and was also considered to be a common man, unlike the previous presidents who had come from wealthy families. His background helped him with the Presidential election, because many people could relate to him. helped establish the Indian removal act, nullification crisis, Old Hickory," pet banks, spoils system, specie circular, trail of tears, Henry Clay Flectural Process. As a politician, Jefferson was a leading proponent of the philosophy of the Enlightenment, which stressed individual rights and individual logic as the basis of moral society. To Jefferson, this meant that a good government needed to protect the rights of the people and along with similarly-minded revolutionaries, he helped establish that theAmerican government would be a Democratic Republic, in which people voted on representatives to run the government. That's the system we still use today. He put these ideas into the Declaration of Independence, most famously summed up in the phrase, ''We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.''

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explanation:

during the pueblo revolt, father de mora hid most of the gold in the mine and covered the entrance. he tried to take some of the gold with him, but had to leave it behind in order to escape.