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...uld be done directly to the people. It was called the New Democracy, and it was a great idea based on universal manhood suffrage. While older federalist senators taunted and ridiculed the younger and humbler senators when the messed up these new democrats argued that if they messed up, they messed up together. The flowering political democracy was in part caused the logical growth of the open-minded ideas that had taken root in colonial times. More and more people understood how banks, tariffs, and internal improvements affected the quality of their lives. The panic of 1819, the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the steadily improving economy helped this idea nourish greatly. In the panic of 1819, overextended banks had called back their debts, and often, farmers unable to pay up lost their farms while the bankers didn’t have to lose their property because they simply suspended their own payments, and the apparent favoritism caused outcry. The problem with Missouri had aroused Southern awareness to how the North could try to crush their slavery once and for all. But the new democracy allowed the people (even the southerners) to really have their voice heard and they took full advantage of this luxury. During the Jacksonian era voter turnout rose dramatically, clear political parties developed, and new styles of politics emerged. In 1824, only one fourth of all eligible voters voted, but that numbered doubled 4 years later. Candidates inc...