What were the domestic policies of Andrew Jackson?

Answer 1

In 1835, Jackson tried to reduce the federal debt and became the only president in US history to completely pay off the national debt. However, this achievement was shortly followed by the Panic of 1837-1844

Jackson called for the abolition of the Electoral College

He implemented the theory of the Spoils System which would allow rotation in office staff

Jackson worked to rescind the charter of the Second Bank of the United States because it improved the fortunes of the elite at the expense of farmers and laborers

Jackson signed into law the Tariff of 1832 to try and appease the southerners who failed to support President John Quincy Adam's Tariff of 1828 or Tariff of Abominations but this resulted in the Nullification Crisis (South Carolina refused to accept either treaty as legitimate)

Jackson was a leading advocate of Indian Removal. This was a policy which would relocate Native Americans west of the Mississippi River this was signed into law in 1830

Jackson made appointments to the Supreme Court (6)

Major Supreme Court cases included: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, Worcester v. Georgia, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge

Arkansas and Michigan were admitted as states

Answer 2

Major Domestic Policy: Jackson ran for office in 1828, defeating John Quincy Adams who was running for reelection. People liked Jackson because of the fact that he showed them who he really was. He made the government more democratic, and also made it easier to vote by dropping a majority of the qualifications like religious requirements. During Jackson's time in office, he aimed toward uniting the country. He passed the force bill, which enabled him to end any conflict in the Carolinas. The Compromise Tariff, created by Henry Clay in 1833, promised to lower the protective tariff until it had reached the price in 1824. The charter of the second bank of the United States was about to run out. Nicholas Biddle suggested that the charter should be extended. This bill was vetoed by Andrew Jackson and then created smaller banks, which destroyed the national banks. This then resulted with a depression at the end of Jackson's term.

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson's social policies included being indifferent about the abolition of slavery and women's rights, did not value education, supported the upward social mobility towards the common man, and he despised Native Americans.

Answer 4

Jackson was the lifeblood of a new party, based loosely on Jefferson's ideals of democracy and states' rights, but shaped by the new class of Americans, many of them

poor immigrants or children of poor immigrants, who had settled the Western frontier and were beginning to proper away from the coast.