More than almost any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected, as president, he tried to act as a direct representative of the common man.
Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and killed in a duel, a man with a false tainting his wife Rachel.
Jackson enough to prosper slaves and a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville to build buy. He was the first man elected from Tennessee in the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A Major General in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans.
In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson, and 1828 was enough to win joined "Old Hickory" in numerous state elections and control of the federal government in Washington.
In his first annual report to Congress, Jackson recommended eliminating the Electoral College. He also tried to democratize the Federal Office holds. Already state machines were built patronage, and proclaimed a New York Senator openly, "that the victors belongs the spoils ...."
Jackson took a milder view. Assuming that the ministers who seemed to enjoy life tenure, he believed Government duties could be "so clear and simple," should rotate between the offices to make the applicants.
As national politics polarized around Jackson and his two opposition parties that emerged from the old Republican party - the Democratic Republicans or Democrats, compliance with Jackson, and the National Republican or Whig against him.
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and other Whigführer declared themselves the defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.
Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous presidents, not to Congress, to move the policy, but used his veto power and his party leadership to take over the command.
The greatest party battle for the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson appeared hostile, the Bank threw its power against him.
Had Clay and Webster, who acted as lawyers for the bank, led the fight for their rights artery in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me, but I'll kill!" Jackson, a veto on the bill artery, the bank charges with undue economic privilege.
His views won the approval of the U.S. electorate, in 1832, he interviewed more than 56 percent of the vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay.
Jackson met head on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariffs.
If South Carolina to destroy the collective undertook was Jackson forces to Charleston and privately threatened to hang Calhoun. Violence threatens to sound negotiated a compromise: the prices were lowered and South Carolina had nullity.
In January of 1832, while the President was dining with friends in the White House, someone whispered to him that the Senate rejected the nomination of Martin Van Buren as minister to England. Jackson jumped to his feet and shouted: So he did "The Eternal I beat them". His favorite, Van Buren, became Vice-President, and succeeded to the presidency of the "Old Hickory" retired to the Hermitage, where he died in June 1845th
Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and killed in a duel, a man with a false tainting his wife Rachel.
Jackson enough to prosper slaves and a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville to build buy. He was the first man elected from Tennessee in the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A Major General in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans.
In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson, and 1828 was enough to win joined "Old Hickory" in numerous state elections and control of the federal government in Washington.
In his first annual report to Congress, Jackson recommended eliminating the Electoral College. He also tried to democratize the Federal Office holds. Already state machines were built patronage, and proclaimed a New York Senator openly, "that the victors belongs the spoils ...."
Jackson took a milder view. Assuming that the ministers who seemed to enjoy life tenure, he believed Government duties could be "so clear and simple," should rotate between the offices to make the applicants.
As national politics polarized around Jackson and his two opposition parties that emerged from the old Republican party - the Democratic Republicans or Democrats, compliance with Jackson, and the National Republican or Whig against him.
Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and other Whigführer declared themselves the defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.
Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous presidents, not to Congress, to move the policy, but used his veto power and his party leadership to take over the command.
The greatest party battle for the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson appeared hostile, the Bank threw its power against him.
Had Clay and Webster, who acted as lawyers for the bank, led the fight for their rights artery in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me, but I'll kill!" Jackson, a veto on the bill artery, the bank charges with undue economic privilege.
His views won the approval of the U.S. electorate, in 1832, he interviewed more than 56 percent of the vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay.
Jackson met head on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariffs.
If South Carolina to destroy the collective undertook was Jackson forces to Charleston and privately threatened to hang Calhoun. Violence threatens to sound negotiated a compromise: the prices were lowered and South Carolina had nullity.
In January of 1832, while the President was dining with friends in the White House, someone whispered to him that the Senate rejected the nomination of Martin Van Buren as minister to England. Jackson jumped to his feet and shouted: So he did "The Eternal I beat them". His favorite, Van Buren, became Vice-President, and succeeded to the presidency of the "Old Hickory" retired to the Hermitage, where he died in June 1845th
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