... it, traitors. In response to South Carolina's attempt to nullify the "tariff of abominations," some South Carolinians even threatened to secede from the union, congress passed a "force bill" allowing the Jackson to use military force to enforce acts of congress. Although Jackson stood for the taking ... government and increasing state government authority, Andrew Jackson still believed that the union could not be broken. As an advocate of strong central power Jackson also opposed the Bank of the United States. Jackson's veto to the Bank's charter in 1832 is commensurate with his "common ...

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... the American political vocabulary, to describe his New Deal, his attempt to temper economic individualism with social democratic safeguards. For millions of Americans those safeguards - such as Social Security and bank deposit insurance - The Great Depression had decimated the independent middle classes, the small businesspeople and farmers who had been the bulwark of self-government. Roosevelt redefined democracy for a mass ... for exposing the safety hazards of General Motors cars, filed class action suits to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of social science. The naacp the Ameri...

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