Implicit meaning of ‘not smile on institutions’

Implicit meaning of ‘not smile on institutions’

The passage below is from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree.

By 1850, New York had half a million inhabitants; by 1876, one million. This rate of growth was unprecedented in the history of humanity. The population was diverse in almost every respect, with a business class as wealthy as any in the world, and vast numbers of impoverished immigrants crowded into filthy tenements. By the middle of the century, nearly half of the city’s inhabitants were foreign born and the bourgeoisie began their flight up Manhattan. The masses might be downtrodden, but they were not silent. In 1822, the state constitution had granted the franchise to all adult white males, and the spirit of Jacksonian democracy did not smile on institutions like the New York Society Library, founded in 1754 by three ambitious young Whig lawyers. The spirit of the times was expressed more by the Apprentices’ Library established by the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, and the Mercantile Library Association, both founded in 1820. By 1855, this last was the most extensive and popular circulating library in the city, with 42,000 volumes, and a membership of 4,600 readers. In 1870, the Mercantile Library had the highest circulation of any library in the United States and the fourth-largest collection.

I want to ask the implicit meaning of the underlined passage.

But first, I want to ask the meaning of ‘the spirit of Jacksonian democracy’. Does it mean ‘spirit of the times’ in the next sentence? (Am I right?)

And does ‘the spirit of the times’ mean that downtrodden masses get their fair share of the community’s benefit? (Am I right?)

In ‘the spirit of Jacksonian democracy’, does Jacksonian implicitly represents populist? (Am I right?)

Based on the underlined passage, I assume that...

1. Many working people didn’t like the NYSL. (Am I right?)
2. Three ambitious young Whig lawyers who founded NYSL were politically conservative. (Am I right?)

Thanks in advance.