Prior to his presidency, Jackson was very active in war and politics. At the tender age of thirteen he became an orderly and messenger in the mounted militia of South Carolina where he took part in the battle of Hanging Rock against the British. By age fourteen and without any immediate family he took his $300 inheritance from his grandfather and went to Charleston, South Carolina. With his money he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1787. The next year he was appointed solicitor general. In 1790 Jackson was appointed as North Carolina’s prosecuting attorney. In 1796 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After one year in the house, Jackson was elected t

Following the lead of the pet banks, wildcat banks issued notes of their own that were backed up by insufficient specie reserves. Soon the ratio of paper notes to gold or silver was 12 to 1: $12 of paper money was in circulation for every $1 of gold or silver in the nation’s banks. The result was runaway inflation. On July 11, 1836, Jackson issued his Specie Circular. It directed government agents to accept only gold or silver for the sale of land. Jackson had hoped that this would stop speculation. Speculators had been using paper money to buy up huge tracts of land from the government. They would then sell small parcels to the actual settlers at a huge profit. Jackson wanted to enable the settlers to buy land directly from the government rather than from profiting speculators.

Nearing the age of 62, Jackson arrived in Washington D.C. for his inauguration. When he took office he rewarded his democratic “party of the people” supporters with cabinet positions, most of which were competent and honest. There was no specific name of his domestic or foreign program, but in foreign affairs Jackson scored two diplomatic triumphs, one with Britain and one with France, that ended long-standing disputes with those countries.

While in office President Jackson provided a general strengthening of the presidency. He established the veto as an unqualified right of the presidency. Up till his term there was a feeling that the only veto that could be made was to be on the ground of unconstitutionality. He also established the right to make and remake the cabinet.

Another important event in Jackson presidency was the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States. Although this was to a large extent a privately owned bank, it had a government charter to regulate the flow of currency, control credit, and perform essential banking services for the Department of

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