Andrew Jackson Dbq

Andrew Jackson is known for being the founder of the Democratic Party and for his support of individual liberty. When the war between Britain and the United States of America, Andrew Jackson had become a well-off Tennessee lawyer and expanding young politician by 1812, even though he was born in poverty, when war broke out between the United States and Britain. On March 15, 1767, Andrew Jackson was born to Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. His Parents were Scots-Irish colonists who emigrated from Ireland in 1765. In 1796, Jackson was a member of the convention that recognized the Tennessee Constitution and was elected Tennessee's first representative in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected to the U.S. Senate the next year,

presidency. Although Jackson won the popular vote, there was not a candidate that had gotten most of the Electoral College vote, giving the House of Representative the election. Speaker of the House Henry Clay vowed his support to Jackson’s top rival, John Quincy Adams, who came out as the winner. Jackson accepted the defeat between him and Adams at one point, but when Adams named Clay as secretary of state, his backers saw this as a backroom deal that became known as the “Corrupt Bargain.” The negative reaction to the House's decision caused Jackson's re-nomination for the presidency in 1825. It was the cause in the split of the Democratic-Republican Party. The main supporters of “Old Hickory” called themselves Democrats and would eventually create the Democratic Party. Jackson's opponents nicknamed him "jackass," which he liked so he decided to use the symbol of a donkey to represent himself. Though the use of that symbol is didn’t last very long, it later become the emblem of the new Democratic Party. After a bruising campaign, Andrew Jackson won the presidential election of 1828 by a landslide over Adams. With his election, Jackson became the first frontier president and the first chief executive. Jackson gained his popularity because he was the first president to invite the public to attend the inauguration ball at the White

While prior presidents rejected only bills they believed unconstitutional, Jackson set a new precedent by wielding the veto pen as a matter of policy. Still upset at the results of the 1824 election, he believed in giving the power to elect the president and vice president to the American people by abolishing the Electoral College, garnering him the nickname the "people's president." Campaigning against corruption, Jackson became the first president to widely replace incumbent officeholders with his supporters, which became known as the “spoils system.” In perhaps his greatest feat as president, Jackson became involved in a battle with the Second Bank of the United States, a theoretically private corporation that served as a government-sponsored monopoly. Jackson saw the bank as a corrupt, elitist institution that manipulated paper money and wielded too much power over the economy. His opponent for re-election in 1832, Henry Clay, believed the bank fostered a strong economy. Seeking to make the bank a central campaign issue, Clay and his supporters passed a bill through Congress to re-charter the institution. In July 1832, Jackson vetoed the re-charter because it backed “the advancement of the few at the expense of the many.” Jackson also ordered the federal government's deposits removed from the Bank of the United States and placed in state or