ANDREW JACKSON“OLD HICKORY”

•Won the election of 1828•Many people attended his inauguration

His wife Rachel’s tomb

The Hermitage

A slave cabin

The “spoils system”•Gave government jobs to his supporters•This is also known as patronage

The “kitchen cabinet”•Jackson’s unofficial group of advisors

Maysville Road Veto •Jackson vetoed a bill to build a road

across Kentucky because he thought the state should pay for it, not the federal government

Tariff of 1828•Called the “Tariff of Abominations” by

southerners•South Carolina wanted to nullify it•The Force Bill said the president could

send troops to collect taxes•Henry Clay helped write a Compromise

Bill which reduced the tariff each year

The Bank War•Jackson hated the Bank of the U.S.

because he thought it was a monopoly and too powerful

•Henry Clay and Daniel Webster submitted a bill to renew the bank’s charter, but Jackson vetoed it

•He attacked Nicholas Biddle, the head of the Bank

•Jackson also took federal money out of the Bank of the US and put it in smaller “pet banks”

•Specie circular is issued – this says that western lands have to be paid for in specie

•All this helped to destroy the Bank of the US and led to an economic crisis called The Panic of 1837