Dates in Office: 1829-1837
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- Believed in the "Common Man"; that the common man could achieve anything.
- Two parties grew from the Republicans, the Democratic Republicans (Democrats) & the National Republicans (Whigs).
- Government should be "so plain and simple".
- Second Bank of the United States was a focus for party battle.
- Jackson desired to kill the National Bank, because of the debt and loss he had faced in his past.
- Wanted the Natives forced west. Indian Removal Act of 1830.
- Ordinance of Nullification 1832
- Specie Circular (1836) requiring that lands be purchased with hard money--gold or silver.
- Eaton Affair
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