... 's continuing hard-money, antibank campaigns offended more conservative men "the so-called Bank Democrats "who, whatever their displeasure with the Second Bank of the United States, did not want to see the entire paper money credit system dramatically curtailed. The oppositionist core, however, came from a cross-class coalition, strongest in rapidly commercializing areas, that viewed the market revolution as ... free labor. It would take until the 1850s before these contradictions fully unraveled the Jacksonian coalition. But as early as the mid-1840s, during the debates over Texas annex...

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