Title: The Jackson Administration | Boundless US History
Headings: The Jackson Administration
The Jackson Administration
The Jackson Presidency
Key Points
Key Terms
Jacksonian Democracy
The Philosophy
Expanded Suffrage
Manifest Destiny
Patronage
Strict Constructionism
Laissez-Faire Economics
Crises During Jackson’s Presidency
Opposition to the National Bank
Nullification Crisis
Assassination Attempt
Jackson and the Democratic Party
Key Points
Key Terms
The Rise of the Democratic Party
Values of the Democratic Party
Elections of the 1830s, 40s, and 50s
Young America
Jackson’s Appointments and Rivalries
Key Points
Key Terms
The Spoils System
Jackson’s Appointments
Reform of the Spoils System
Nullification
Key Points
Key Terms
Introduction
Background
The Call for Nullification
Resolution
American Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears
Key Points
Key Terms
Indian Removal
Jacksonian Policy
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
The Trail of Tears
Resistance
Legacy
Enfranchisement and Its Limits
Key Points
Key Terms
Introduction
Suffrage in the Time of Jacksonian Democracy
Disenfranchisement
The Dorr Rebellion
Key Points
Key Terms
Introduction: The Dorr Rebellion
Precursors
Rebellion
Thomas Wilson Dorr and the People’s Convention
Two Governments
Attack on the Arsenal
A Second Convention
Dorr’s Fate

Content: As the Jacksonians consolidated power, they more often advocated for expanding federal power and presidential power in particular. Laissez-Faire Economics
Complementing a strict construction of the Constitution, the Jacksonians generally favored a hands-off approach to the economy, in contrast to the Whig program sponsoring modernization, railroads, banking, and economic growth. Crises During Jackson’s Presidency
Opposition to the National Bank
The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a 20-year period during James Madison ‘s tenure in 1816. Due to his strict constructionist policies, Jackson worked to rescind the bank’s federal charter. Following Jefferson, Jackson supported an “agricultural republic” and felt the Bank improved the fortunes of an “elite circle” of commercial and industrial entrepreneurs at the expense of farmers and laborers. During his presidency, Jackson succeeded in vetoing the Bank’s 1832 re-charter by Congress and withdrawing U.S. funds in 1833. The U.S. Senate censured Jackson on March 28, 1834, for his actions removing U.S. funds from the Bank of the United States. When the Jacksonians achieved a majority in the Senate, the censure was expunged. Nullification Crisis
Another notable crisis during Jackson’s period in office was the Nullification Crisis, or Secession Crisis, of 1828–1832, which merged issues of sectional strife with disagreements over tariffs. Critics alleged that high tariffs (such as the “Tariff of Abominations”) on imports of common manufactured goods produced in Europe made those goods more expensive than ones from the northern United States, raising the prices paid by planters in the South.