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JACKSON AS PRESIDENT
1. PEGGY EATON SCANDAL- JACKSONS CABINET WAS AVERAGE NOT GREAT. KITCHEN CABINET WERE FIRST DEMOCRATS. SECRETARY OF WAR JOHN EATON'S WIFE. OTHER CABINET WIVES DO NOT LIKE PEGGY BCUZ OF HER CHECKERED PAST, SO THEY REFUSE TO SOCIALIZE. PEGGY TELLS JOHN AND JOHN DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO SO HE TELLS JACKSON WHICH IS PRESIDENT TO HELP. JACKSONS GETS INVOLVED HATING RUMORS BCUZ HE SAYS THATZ WUT KILLED HIS WIFE. TALKS WITH WOMEN AND THEY STILL REFUSE TO TALK TO PEGGY SO JACKSON FIRES THE ENTIRE CABINET. CALHOUN VP RESIGNS.
2. SPOILS SYSTEM-HIRE POLITICAL FRIENDS- FIRE POLITICAL OPPONENTS. GREATLY EXPANDS WAY OF POLITICS UNTIL 1880S. GETS TERM FROM MARCY " TO VICTOR GO SPOILS"
3. NULLIFICATION- TARIFF WAS ISSUED IN 1816. THEN IT IS RAISED AGAIN IN 1828 WHICH GREATLY UPSETS SC. 1832 TARIFF SLIGTLY REUCED AND IN SAME YEAR SC NULLIFYS TARIFF (USING VIR- KEN RESOLUTION THEORY, JOINED UNION VOLUBTARILY) AND REFUSES TO COLLECT IT. AJ IS MAD and proposes the force act. This almost cause the states to get into war. HENRTY CLAY COMES UP WITH A COMPROMISE TO LOWER TARIFF 2 PCT. PER YEAR FOR 10 YEARS. THIS CALMED TENSIONS.
4. TRAIL OF TEARS- INDIAN REMOVAL ACT. INDIANS THAT LIVE ON EAST OF MISSISSPI TO MOVES WEST OF IT. MANY TRADEGYS AND DEATHS. WEREN'T EXPECTING SUCH DESERT SUCH AS OKLAHOMA. CHEROKEES GO TO COURT. MARSHALL RULES THAT THEY STAY ON THEIR LAND BUT AJ REFUSES THEM AND MOVES THEM ANYHOW. SEMINOLES FIGHT BACK (OSCELA)
5. FIGHT VS. BANK
AJ THOUGHT BANK HAD TOO MUCH POWER. THE BANK WAS AGAINST FARMERS AND AJ WAS A FARMER HIMSELF. HAM AND CLAYS BANK. AJ HATES MONOPLY AND POWER OF CENTRAL EASTERN BANK.
VETO AND NEVER HEAR IT AGAIN.
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