#2 Andrew Jackson did not fit into any one category. Although he was essentially a frontier aristocrat he did not look like an aristocrat. Jackson was also from the West (not the east which is where every other president is from) and began his life poor. He had a large temper and no college education (the second after George Washington). Jackson ws national figure at this point (he won the battle of New Orleans) giving him popularity. #3 Jackson saw everyone as equal and did not favored just a small group of aristocratic or bureaucratic social class. He helped the people that supported him, therefore, he accomplished what he promised to his followers. Moreover, Andrew Jackson's excuse for the spoils system was that it is "better to bring …show more content…
The decree required that all public lands be purchased with “hard,” or metallic, currency. Issued after small state banks flooded the market with unreliable paper currency, fueling land speculation in the West. #10 Being associated with the common man was alluring of the political division of the Democratic-Republicans party into the Whigs that disliked the ideas and firm hand mainly unconstitutional actions of president Jackson. They declared themselves as the defenders of the people and the faced corruption. Even though Jackson was for the common man, the Whigs claimed that the Democrats were corrupted and weren't for the common man. The Whigs, by absorbing the anti-Masonic party, declared they now defended the common man, the …show more content…
Financial stringency abroad endangered America’s economic house of cards. Commodity prices drooped, sales of public lands fell off, and customs revenues dried to rivulet. Therefore, Van Buren tried to ail the economy through his “Divorce Bill.” He claimed that the government should divorce itself from banking and setting up independently its surplus money in vaults in several of the larger states. However, his scheme was passed it was not highly popular so, it was repealed by the Whigs, and then reenacted 6 years