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.''

by 1890, the united states had by far the world's most productive economy. american industry produced twice as much as its closest competitor--britain. but the united states was not a great military or diplomatic power. its army numbered less than 30,000 troops, and its navy had only about 10,000 seamen. britain's army was five times the size of its american counterpart, and its navy was ten times bigger. the united states' military was small because the country was situated between two large oceans and was surrounded by weak or friendly nations. it faced no serious military threats and had little interest in asserting military power overseas.