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Andrew Jackson did not sign the charter for the Second National Bank because he believed that it concentrated too much power in the hands of a few wealthy individuals and posed a threat to the democratic principles he valued. He considered the bank to be unconstitutional and a tool for promoting the interests of the wealthy elite at the expense of the common people.
In July of 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a veto of a bill that would have re-chartered the Second Bank. Jackson believed that the bank was corrupt.
Jackson decided to destroy the bank by transferring about $10 million in government deposits to state banks. Without this money the national bank struggled to survive. Before this Jackson had protested against national banks vehemently and refused to renew the Second Bank's charter. He had also vetoed the bank (well known as the "Bank Veto).
Those were known as 'pet banks', a tactic employed by Jackson's administration to try to destroy the second national bank. The second national bank obviously collapsed eventually after its charter was not renewed, and the pet banks served to paralyse the system in the mean time. Ironically, Jackson's face is on the 5-dollar bill, despite the fact that he destroyed the national bank.
He fought to destroy it.
Andrew Jackson announced that the government was no long going to be using the Second National Bank and removed all funds from the bank.
Andrew Jackson announced that the government was no long going to be using the Second National Bank and removed all funds from the bank.
Many who favored the interest of the bank belong to the Whig party and the public accused Jackson of having a personal agenda by vetoing the renewal of the bank. Others accused him of using his authority against the bank for personal reasons. Jackson, however, expressed his concern that the governmentâ??s money in the Second National Bank was vulnerable and subject to manipulation by foreign countries.
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He fought to destroy it. (Apex)
Andrew Jackson removed all of the money from the second national bank and moved it all into 23 "pet banks". Historians still debate today whether or not his actions were legal because the bank still had 4 years left under its charter.