1. Document 1: The Election of Andrew Jackson
So in a broader sense the election (of Andrew Jackson in 1828) was a “revolution” comparable to that of It was a peaceful revolution, achieved by ballots instead of bullets … “Shall the people rule?” cried the Jacksonians. The answering roar seemed to say, “The people shall rule!”…
“I never saw anything like it,” a puzzled Daniel Webster mused about Jackson’s inaugural. “Persons have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson, and they really think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger.”
… Jackson’s victory accelerated the transfer of national power from the country house to the farmhouse, from the East to the West, from the snobs to the mobs. If Jefferson had been the hero of the gentleman farmer, Jackson was the hero of the dirt farmer.
Source: Thomas Bailey and David Kennedy, The American Pageant, 1994.

2. Cartoon of King Andrew the First
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Cartoon of King Andrew the First
Note: Cartoon appeared in the presidential election of 1832.
Source: Library of Congress, Lithograph, 1832, LC-USZ

3. Document 3 : Andrew Jackson’s Bank Veto Message to Congress
July 10, 1832
…The present Bank of the United States … enjoys an exclusive privilege of banking ..almost a monopoly of the foreign and domestic exchange.
It appears that more than a fourth part of the stock is held by foreigners and the (rest) is held by a few hundred of our own citizens, chiefly the richest class.
Of the twenty-five directors of this bank five are chosen by the government and twenty by the citizen stockholders.. It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country … might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government for their selfish purposes.
Source: James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, , 1905.

4. Document 4: Andrew Jackson and the Bank Political Cartoon

5. Document 5: The Spoils System Political Cartoon
Spoils System – the giving of government jobs to friends and loyal people rather than those who are more qualified for the job.

6. Document 6 - Indian Removal Map and Quote
Document 6 - Indian Removal Map and Quote

7. John C. Calhoun’s words over the Nullification Act
Document 7
John C. Calhoun’s words over the Nullification Act
“We the people of South Carolina, have declared the act of Congress to alter the tariff on imports to be unconstitutional and therefore null and void. It has not been claimed, nor is it now, that there is in the Constitution any positive grant of powers to protect manufacturers.”
Source: Works of John C. Calhoun, 1856

8. Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the People of South Carolina
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Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation to the People of South Carolina
December 10, 1832
“If a single drop of blood shall be shed there in opposition to the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I can lay my hand on engaged in such treasonable conduct, upon the first tree I can reach. I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”