Jacksonian_Democracy

Jacksonian Democracy Democracy in Jackson’s Administration In 1828, democracy changed with the election of Andrew Jackson for president. This democracy’s philosophy was that all governing that was necessary would be done directly by the people of America. Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as the guardians of the United States Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity. This self-serving view was exceedingly hypocritical, as shown through the National Bank, the Nullification crisis, and the Native American’s Trail of Tears. Andrew Jackson decided not to recharter the National Bank in 1832, stating that it was for the good of economic equality. This started what is known as the “Bank War.” In his veto message (Doc B), Jackson maintained that he was protecting United States citizens by not passing the recharter. His belief was that the Bank was monopolistic and therefore unconstitutional. However, the bank was declared constitutional in McCulloch vs. Maryland in 1819. He felt that this “monopoly” would favor only the wealthy and because it only used hard money, would devastate the poorer citizens in America. This is where his reasoning that it was not economically equal was derived from. Although jackson, bank, rights, carolina, south, land, vs, state, native, jackson’s, georgia, doc, constitution, cherokees, because, state’s, over, nullification, national, indians, government, democrats, believed, america, 1832, white, though, states, refused, recognize, protecting, nullifiers, liberty, influence, image