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Jackson, whose own wife was treated harshly, was deeply sympathetic, and ordered his cabinet to be so, as well. Only van Buren, a widower, managed to do so, and henceforth he, rather than Calhoun, would be Jackson’s favourite, and Jackson and Calhoun would grow further and further apart. ...
*Jackson gained many enemies during his presidency, chief among them Henry Clay. ... As president, Jackson used the power of the veto twelve times, more than all other previous presidents put together. Eventually his detractors would call Jackson ‘King Andrew I,’ and depict him in cartoons trampling on the Constitution as he vetoed new laws. ...
*The sectional controversy was further highlighted by Jackson’s invitation to the Jefferson Day Banquet held on Mr Jefferson’s birthday, 13 April, 1830. Calhoun requested that Jackson attend, meaning to sound him out on the issue of states’ rights and the ending of the Tariff of Abominations. ... However, Jackson had been apprised of the plan, and was prepared. ...
*Jackson took a more direct approach, and privately threatened to hang the nullifiers, but publicly sent a small detachment of the army to police the state, while preparing a larger force for invasion. Congress also passed the Force Bill, authorizing Jackson to send up to 50,000 troops to South Carolina. ...
*Although the Nullification Crisis was important in 1832, the big issue of the election was the Bank of the United States, which Jackson was known to hate and which Clay and his supporters, sure of its popularity, chose to make an issue for the election by trying to renew its charter early. ... It had been chartered for twenty years in 1796 and had its charter renewed in 1816, so that the Bank in existence during Jackson’s presidency is sometimes distinguished as the Second Bank of the United States.
*Although the bank held government funds, lent money to numerous institutions, issued paper money, and regulated and stabilised the economy, it was unpopular in some circles, including Andrew Jackson’s. ... A substantial minority of these stockholders in turn were foreigners, especially British (whom Jackson particularly despised).
*Although the Bank of the United States had been upheld as constitutional in McCulloch v Maryland, Jackson accused it and its president of being monopolistic and corrupt, and contended that whatever the Supreme Court might have said, the Bank was, or at least ought to be, unconstitutional. ...
*With the election of 1832 on the horizon, Henry Clay came up with what he thought was a brilliant scheme to discredit Jackson in the upcoming election. ... Once the bill was passed, it would go to Jackson’s desk, where as President he would either have to sign it into law or veto it.
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Approximate Pages = 8.6
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