Jackson supporters were poor and relatively new voters. Unlike other races (besides that of 1824) all white men were allowed to vote rather than just white male property owners. The election of Jackson in 1828 tripled the votes cast from 356,000 in 1824 to 1.1 million in 1828. Most of those new voters gave their votes to the man of the people, Jackson. The power of the voters was evident. Jackson had won 178 electoral votes to Adam’s 83. The election also stirred another change; the revival of the two-party system. This race gave voters a choice between two candidates with sharply differing views.

During Jackson’s first term as president two major crises arouse. One being the Tariff of 1828. The other one being the Indian Crises. The passing of the Tariff of 1828 by congress placed a heavy tax on imports trying to encourage Americans to manufacture in America. The tariff benefited the north greatly while it harmed the south whose economy was based on importing and exporting cotton and other crops with foreign nations. South Carolina declared the tariffs to be null or void and then threatened to secede from the union. After Jackson threatened to send troops in and after passing the Force Bill, which required South Carolina pay the tariffs, a truce was met. The tariffs were lowered and South Carolina removed its nullification act.

During Jackson’s second term as president he withdrew federal funds and but them into banks around the country. The banks printed excessive amounts of paper money and in 1836 Jackson had to declare that the federal government would only except gold and silver for public lands. The order, called the Specie Circular, weakened the banks and triggered the Panic of 1837 and another in 1839 lasting until 1849. This predicament never faltered Jackson’s public appearance. He left office more popular than when he had entered it for there was widespread approval of his actions which had a great effect on U.S. politics.

Jackson, while president, supported the states efforts to remove Native American tribes from their territories and to farm the land from which they were taken. He also encouraged the Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830. The act gave him the ability to give Native Americans land in parts of the Louisiana Purchase in exchange for lands taken from them in th

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