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=== Andrew Jackson ===
|*1st president not born in Virginia or named Adams

= westerner, Tennessee

 * considered self-made man

* Jackson supporters from 1824 election became Democratic party

Issues:

* anti-nullification

* Jackson was a “unionist”

* opposed the National Bank

 * vetoed new charter

 * put federal money in other banks 

 * paper money, supported "hard currency" = gold and silver

(note: silver later seen as soft money after numerous mines discovered in late 1800s)

* spoils system: put supporters in federal jobs (mostly postal service)

* "Jacksonian democracy"
** universal white manhood suffrage 
*** enacted by states, not Jackson, but part of Jacksonian revolution

* Jackson’s coalition included anti-slavery, .especially western settlers

* Indian Removal Act (1830) enforced by Jackson
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