The “Old Hero”, “Old Hickory”, the “people’s champion”, all these names were bestowed upon out former US president, Andrew Jackson. Jackson was the true leader and preacher of democracy. His democratic leadership presided over the decision for the future of the Bank of the United States and through the tariff crisis of 1832.
Jackson’s vetoing of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States had much democratic reasoning behind it. The “monster monopoly” was undeniably plutocratic and run by an elite moneyed aristocracy. It was this rich and selected class of people who held stock within the bank that benefited from the federal funds of the government. Jackson didn’t believ
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