Andrew Jackson Autonomy

Andrew Jackson was the Seventh President of the United States of America (Waxhaw, South Carolina, 1767 - Nashville, Tennessee, 1845). This son of Irish immigrants fought very young in the War of Independence of the United States, in which he lost his entire family. After leading a disorderly youth life, in which he exercised the most diverse offices, he studied law in North Carolina and marched to make his fortune to the West frontier, establishing himself in Nashville as a lawyer. Andrew Jackson There he took a real estate estate, joined the local high society, held important positions (as prosecutor and judge) and participated in the convention of 1796 that proposed and got the formation of the State of Tennessee as the sixteenth State

That discrepancy unleashed an open struggle within the Democratic administration, which only remitted when, in his second term, Jackson replaced Calhoun with Van Buren as vice president. In 1832 South Carolina used the doctrine of Calhoun to reject the newly approved protectionist tariff, which reserved the internal market for the industrial producers of the North, harming the economic interests of the South and the West; Jackson managed to avoid the armed confrontation and the threat of secession by means of a commitment tariff, leaving the presidential power strengthened from the crisis, but leaving open the wound that would be reproduced in the Civil War of 1861-65. Jackson retired from politics in 1837 and was succeeded in the presidency by his close associate Martin Van

Supporter of democratic practices and knowing that he had the people on his side, Jackson ruled, whenever he deemed it appropriate, leaning on him to fight against Congress and even against the Supreme Court itself. Well advised by his secretary of state, Martin Van Buren, Jackson introduced universal suffrage equating it with the condition of sovereignty, suppressing the unjust census suffrage, all with the aim of creating a new and powerful political clientele, a circumstance that developed even better the introduce and institutionalize the system known as the Spoils System, which consisted in the distribution of the most important positions of the Administration among friends and faithful collaborators of the party in power. Although Jackson used this prebend in a moderate way, it set a serious precedent in later administrations, to the point that the following fifty years the Spoils System plagued American political life, degraded the effectiveness of the government's work, with incalculable damage to the country, as demonstrated by the administrations of Ulysses S. Grant and other