JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
MARTIN VAN BUREN
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The Whigs were unable to get anything else done
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The United States still did not have a good banking system
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Tyler used this as a way to get re-elected
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -But again, on states’ rights grounds, Tyler vetoed it. In retaliation, the Whigs expelled Tyler from their party. All the Cabinet resigned but Secretary of State Webster. A year later when Tyler vetoed a tariff bill, the first impeachment resolution against a President was introduced in the House of Representatives.
Detailed explanation-2: -His unexpected rise to the presidency posed a threat to the presidential ambitions of Henry Clay and other Whig politicians and left Tyler estranged from both of the nation’s major political parties at the time. Greenway Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia, U.S. Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the impact of Tyler’s bank veto? Tyler was expelled from the Whig party, and all but one of his cabinet members (Daniel Webster) resigned.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U.S. Bank and the Whigs. John Tyler was a Democrat who became a Whig out of dislike for President Andrew Jackson. Tyler switched parties while he was a U.S. senator from Virginia. The Whig Party developed out of opposition to Jackson’s policies, including his bank policy.