... face of the twenty dollar bill and consistently being polled as one of the greatest presidents in American history, one would assume that Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms were nothing short of legendary. However, assessing "Old Hickory" Jackson's presidency is both a complex and a controversial topic. A popular American general from a humble background as a poor Irish immigrant, Jackson had a significant following ... ...

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... -Soil ticket in 1848 "a protest against growing southern power within the Democracy "amply symbolized northern Democratic alienation. Southern slaveholder Democrats, for their part, began to wonder if anything short of positive federal protection for slavery would spell doom for their class "and the white man's republic. In the middle remained a battered Jacksonian mainstream, ever hopeful that by raising ... ...

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