JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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defeated the British military in direct combat.
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eliminated the nation’s foreign debt.
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established political alliances among the lower classes.
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relocated Native American tribes to reservations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Paying Off the National Debt Jackson’s spending controls, along with increased revenue, enabled him to pay off the national debt in 1835 and keep the nation debt-free for the remainder of his term.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson laid the framework for democracy, paid off the national debt, gained new lands for America, strengthened relationships with foreign nations globally and issued a new currency.
Detailed explanation-3: -President Andrew Jackson announces that the government will no longer use the Second Bank of the United States, the country’s national bank, on September 10, 1833. He then used his executive power to remove all federal funds from the bank, in the final salvo of what is referred to as the “Bank War."
Detailed explanation-4: -He was succeeded by his hand-picked successor, Vice President Martin Van Buren, after Van Buren won the 1836 presidential election. Jackson’s presidency saw several important developments in domestic policy.