... . Upon his inauguration in March of 1829, Andrew Jackson suspiciously initiated the sweeping removal of high-ranking officials from their posts in government with claims that he intended to rid Washington of the corrupt, lazy and complacent behavior that was common among tenured officers. Working hostility so as not to give the public reason to suspect his deceitful ploy, his next ... distinctly reflects the immoral practices of Andrew Jackson's term as president and the crime of Samuel Swartwout serves as an example of the treachery and fraudulence that was instituted in Washington on a...

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... the Jacksonian Democracy refine its politics and ideology. Out of that self-definition came a fundamental shift in the terms of national political debate. The Jacksonians' basic policy thrust, both in Washington and in the states, was to rid government of class biases and dismantle the top-down, credit-driven engines of the market revolution. The war on the Second Bank of ... ...

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