... damaged his integrity and led the nation into a great amount of trouble both during and in the years that followed his presidency. Namely, his borderline corrupt introduction of the spoils system to the U.S. government, callous expulsion of Native Americans in the Removal Act of 1830 and destruction of the Bank of the United States which resulted in a financial crisis are ... customs in New York. Jackson ignored his advisors' repeated warnings about Swartwout's untrustworthiness, and the greedy appointee absconded from office with over a million dollars of government money. The spoils sy...

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... "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growing impression that power was steadily flowing into the hands of a small, self-confident minority. Proposed cures for this sickness included more democracy and a redirection of ... fervent wartime nationalist. By the 1820s, however, Jackson's personal business experiences had long since altered his opinions about speculation and paper money, leaving him eternally suspicious of the cre...

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