Andrew Jackson Case Analysis

The Bank Recharter Bill of 1832 was a bill designed to renew the corporate charter of the Second Bank of the United States. Although Congress passed the bill, Andrew Jackson vetoed it a week later. President Andrew Jackson opposed the Second Bank of the United States because he believed that it held too much power without accountability and that it was unconstitutional.The bank was heavily biased toward business interests and had no congressional oversight. This bias led the bank to not support western expansion, which Jackson favored. Jackson also felt that the bank was too powerful, both politically and economically.

Jackson felt that the National bank was a monopoly that solely benefited the wealthy and elite. According to Symposium on Successful Presidential Economic Policies, an academic journal, Jackson distrusted eastern banks and the National bank because it gave too much power to elites. Jackson was unhappy with the bank's lending policies and thought it was unconstitutional, even though he went directly against the Constitution by ignoring the supreme court's ruling in the Worcester vs. Georgia case. Stated in Article 3 section one of the Constitution, “The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court,”. The Supreme court declared the National bank to be constitutional. However, the power to renew the bank’s charter laid in the hands of Jackson, whom despised the National bank for seemingly no valid reason. Jackson denied the charter to renew the bank and removed all the government money from the bank. By regularly changing bank notes for coins, the National Bank limited inflation within the country, something state and private banks failed to do. Destroying the only bank that limited inflation soon caused a depression since inflation occurred. Inflation is when there is so much money in circulation that prices rise since the value of the money decreases. Despite Jackson distrusting the bank, it was the bank whom should have distrusted him, for he was the leading force behind the five year financial crisis within the United

When Senator Henry Clay sided with Nicholas Biddle, the president of the Bank, and encouraged him to renew his charter four years earlier. Since Clay was also running for president that year he believed that Jackson had chosen the “unpopular side” and that a “congressional endorsement of the Bank would embarrass or even discredit the president” (Brands 260). Jackson portrayed Biddle as an enemy of the people and made it his personal mission to destroy the Bank personifying it as a “monster corporation”. In the North they favored the Bank because they had strong banking institutions due to industrial economy. Meanwhile, the South did not have much need for the Bank because they were mainly an agricultural economy which meant large amounts of cash were uncommon. In the West, the land was mostly new territory with economies not as developed; therefore they wanted paper money because getting a loan was easier. However altogether, Jackson’s first move was to veto the Bank bill; he viewed this as his mandate for reelection. In the end, Old Hickory’s popularity won the election and he bulldozed right through Henry Clay locking onto his next target, Biddle’s bank. Even with four years left on the Bank’s charter, Jackson could not wait four years for it to expire. Impatiently, Jackson ordered his secretary of the treasury to remove federal deposits from Biddle’s Bank. Although Jackson had wanted to keep the money in a public bank, he never ironed out the details, so they went to state banks instead. In the end, the Bank never regained its

The Bank Veto Message of 1832: Andrew Jackson’s Stand Against the Second Bank of the United States The early 19th century witnessed a fierce constitutional battle over establishing a national bank in the United States. Bank supporters, led by Alexander Hamilton, championed that a national bank was essential for economic stability. In contrast, opponents like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison argued that such an institution represented an abuse of power and favored the wealthy elite. Congress established the First Bank of the United States in 1791, but its charter expired in 1811.

Only one U.S. president has been censured by the United States Senate and this was Andrew Jackson for what the senate believed to be abuse of presidential power during the Bank War. Andrew Jackson should be removed from the $20 bill. While Jackson was the 7th president of the united states and a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812 he got rid of a whole government program because it didn't go along with his viewpoints. In 1816 the second bank of the United States was created five years after the First bank's charter expired. The bank had been run by a board of directors with ties to industry and manufacturing, however Jackson disagreed with the ways that the federal money was being spent as well

I believe that Andrew Jackson was a B+ President with how he promoted democracy by how he dealt with how he wanted to make things equal, he was understanding of the worries and concerns that the people when the tariffs were put upon them, he tried to create laws that favored both regions (The North and The South), Jackson showed this in the battle of the banks because when he believed they were being unconstitutional to the western and that they were favoring the eastern depositors and when he found that the bank wasn’t doing anything to the poor and only making the rich richer, he ordered the secretary of the treasury to remove all federal deposits from the bank and put the money in state banks and this broke the bank. Although he did all

People, people, people, must we be so naïve? We the people of America traveled from far and wide to abandon the ways of insane leadership. No, we have fallen right back in place. For the king this. For the king that. I now crown the new king as King Andrew Jackson. His shady line of work as made us all fools. Do you not see he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Let’s focus our attention to two of the many wrongs by this man- his “Kitchen Cabinet” and his force. Within this man, there are self-seeking actions creating false opinions and pure deceit creating fear in our country.

Hello Erica, I wanted to start off by saying I enjoyed the point you were making, the idea that historians labeling Jackson as something may not matter as it matters more what he saw him as. I agree of course that Jackson was a Southern rather than a Western, a fact that seems even more true as time moved on and the actual West was made more corporeal. From everything I have learned and even a few quick searched on the internet to refresh my mind, the West as we might know it did not truly start to take shape until several years after the War of 1812. By this time, Jackson had been exposed to Southern life his entire life. He never moved West, and always stayed primarily within the South throughout his life. Idea wise, yes he could have some of the adventurous spite and he most certainly took the law into his own hands when he felt wronged.

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States of America, “Old Hickory.” There are many names for the former president, but was he a democratic supporter of the people or a tyrant? Andrew Jackson became famous at the Battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812. Although he was born poor and had little formal education, he ran for president in the election of 1824 and had a plurality win but the House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams. Was Andrew Jackson a president who wanted political and social equality for all or a ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly, or a tyrant? Andrew Jackson is a democratic supporter of the people because he believed the people should govern, he believed that the people had to

Andrew Jackson wasn’t just a president, he could be seen as a tyrant and a democratic supporter of the people. A lot of people voted for jackson to be the president of the united states, even the whole electoral college. But the reason he got voted on by some many people was because they all had different views of Jackson, but mainly I think he was a tyrant. Is Andrew Jackson a democratic supporter of the people or a tyrant? Andrew Jackson is a tyrant because he wasn't respectful to people, forced indians out, and vetoed laws for his own good.

Andrew Jackson was born to Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Jackson on March 15th, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina. His mother and father were poor immigrants from Ireland and his father died before Andrew was born. His brothers were in the Revolutionary War. When Andrew turned 13 he, too, joined the war as a messenger. His brothers both died in the war. Andrew was captured and the British officer gave him a scar from his sword.

With the Jackson administration into office, the Second Bank of the United States became threatened. President Jackson had a private prejudice that wasn’t party policy (Schlesinger 74). He hated banks, all banks, but he especially hated the Second Bank of the United States. He viewed all bankers as “little more than parasites who preyed upon the poor and honest working people of America” (Roughshod 2). The reason for his hatred most likely stemmed from his near ruin as a businessman (land speculator, merchant, and slaver trader) when in the 1790s he accepted some bank notes that turned out to be worthless. From then on, he never trusted anything but hard money, or specie (Roughshod 2).

During the late 1820s, America began to push for the removal of Indians living in the east. Newly elected president, Andrew Jackson, was given the opportunity to sate this desire, while also securing the popular favor. His address to congress on December 8, 1829, was made in an effort to persuade them allow this ‘removal’. Although the primary goal was to remove ‘troublesome’ tribes, it is implied that Jackson only wanted to remove those who weren’t slave-owning and/or cotton producing Indians who traded with the US. Jackson utilized a sense of American superiority, sympathetic appeals, and the desire to preserve the United States to justify his argument to congress.

Some Americans accused President Andrew Jackson him of using absolute control to redistribute wealth after his veto of the National Bank. Others saw the act as an act of patriotism defending the state from a corrupt system that only favoured the rich . However, after the devastation of colonial taxation, taxation by the government not only became a sore spot for many Americans but also a lesson to monitor the actions of the government. Andrew Jackson was an accomplished and educated man he was a lawyer, general, and slaveholder making him a knowledgeable man of the rule of law and the devastations of war when it is not upheld. This bank was designed to stabilize the American economy, but also have a hefty profit for

America’s history is rich and full of countless heroes, scandals, and incredible stories. Perhaps one of the most interesting of those stories is that of Andrew Jackson’s. To some, he was a hero, but to others, he was their worst enemy. Being raised in the mountains of the Carolinas, he became the first “backcountry president” of the United States (Wilentz, 13). His fame, though, began years before his presidency.