Another reason would be that Andrew Jackson loathed paper money. The reasons why Jackson didn’t trust banks were understandable - his early business career had been plighted with a tightening credit, and he had been financially damaged by speculation. However, there was no real reasoning for Jackson to start what would later become the Bank War. After his reelection, Jackson was convinced his opposition of the bank won national support. Jackson vetoed the Bank Recharter Bill, which called for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter, but he knew renewal after the charter expired was still possible. To prevent this from happening, Jackson decided he would reduce the bank’s economic power. He even removed two resistant secretaries of the
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In the 19th century, opinions of the Amerindians weren’t high - they halted Manifest Destiny and sometimes even attacked American towns and people. However, this wasn’t the case for all the Amerindians, most tending to keep to themselves and live peacefully. President John Quincy Adams promised them their freedoms that had already been written out in treaties signed in previous years. The inauguration of President Andrew Jackson threatened this, however. While, in his inaugural address, Jackson said, regarding Amerindian immigration, it “should be voluntary, for it would be as cruel and unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers and seek a home in a distant land”, he was later the one to agree to and pass the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act forced all Amerindians off their land, despite the treaties previously made between the American government and the Amerindians, and made them move westward into foreign lands. When troops arrived to lead the Amerindians off their land, families were separated, the ill and elderly were forced out by gunpoint, people were given only moments to retrieve possessions, and whatever they left was taken by white looters who followed the troops and made out with whatever they could. No one knows how many died throughout what would later be known as the
In the 19th century, opinions of the Amerindians weren’t high - they halted Manifest Destiny and sometimes even attacked American towns and people. However, this wasn’t the case for all the Amerindians, most tending to keep to themselves and live peacefully. President John Quincy Adams promised them their freedoms that had already been written out in treaties signed in previous years. The inauguration of President Andrew Jackson threatened this, however. While, in his inaugural address, Jackson said, regarding Amerindian immigration, it “should be voluntary, for it would be as cruel and unjust to compel the aborigines to abandon the graves of their fathers and seek a home in a distant land”, he was later the one to agree to and pass the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act forced all Amerindians off their land, despite the treaties previously made between the American government and the Amerindians, and made them move westward into foreign lands. When troops arrived to lead the Amerindians off their land, families were separated, the ill and elderly were forced out by gunpoint, people were given only moments to retrieve possessions, and whatever they left was taken by white looters who followed the troops and made out with whatever they could. No one knows how many died throughout what would later be known as the