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Which political practice did Andrew Jackson help to begin in the 1820s?

the Electoral College
the first political parties
the presidential debates
the nominating conventions

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The first political parties

Jackson was both a fiery patriot and a strident partisan. Regarding the national union as indivisible and perpetual, he denounced nullification and secession while reproving policies like the tariff which fostered sectional divisiveness.
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