His support for the system made him popular with the common man. .
Jackson did not approve of a overpowering or controlling federal government. He felt the national government should be the least involved as possible. He vetoed many acts of congress in his term as president, one being a road from Maysville, Kentucky to Lexington, Kentucky. He felt the state should build the road and not the national government. Jackson's idea of a limited government shared the beliefs of many Americans who feared the power of the federal government. .
During Jackson's first term as president two major crises arouse. One being the Tariff of 1828. The other one being the Indian Crises. The passing of the Tariff of 1828 by congress placed a heavy tax on imports trying to encourage Americans to manufacture in America. The tariff benefited the north greatly while it harmed the south whose economy was based on importing and exporting cotton and other crops with foreign nations. South Carolina declared the tariffs to be null or void and then threatened to secede from the union. After Jackson threatened to send troops in and after passing the Force Bill, which required South Carolina pay the tariffs, a truce was met. The tariffs were lowered and South Carolina removed its nullification act.
Jackson, while president, supported the states efforts to remove Native American tribes from their territories and to farm the land from which they were taken. He also encouraged the Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830. The act gave him the ability to give Native Americans land in parts of the Louisiana Purchase in exchange for lands taken from them in the East. About 100,000 members from tribes were relocated from about 100 million acres of mostly cultivated land to about 32 million acres of land which is now Oklahoma. The Natives in many ways tried to keep the Americans out. The Cherokees sued but were told they were not citizens of the United States nor were they a foreign nation so therefore they could not sue.