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JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

AGE OF THE COMMON MAN

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The bold effort of the present bank had made to control the government ____ are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like itThe quote above by Andrew Jackson explains his decision to-
A
relocate Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi
B
refuse to comply with decisions made by the Supreme Court
C
discontinuing the property requirements for women’s suffrage
D
veto legislation to renew the charter of the National Bank
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The bank’s charter was unfair, Jackson argued in his veto message, because it gave the bank considerable, almost monopolistic, market power, specifically in the markets that moved financial resources around the country and into and out of other nations.

Detailed explanation-2: -But the real evil of the Bank, Jackson claimed, was its creation of a privileged class of Americans with too much money and political power. “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes, ” he wrote.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cartoon depicts Andrew Jackson, the 7th United States president, as a monarch holding a veto bill and trampling on the Constitution and on internal improvements of the national banks.

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