Andrew Jackson

One the prominent hero of his time, a man of passion and an expansionist, Andrew Jackson had been part of the democratic movement. Jackson's two terms as president, (1829-37) were the beginning of a new era in American politics, marked by the participation of the masses and the strengthening of presidential power. Jackson introduced the democratic politics of the border, facing the big capitalists and the business world, whose speculative activity and political influence had always distrusted, this battle culminated in the president's decision to end the privileges Bank of the United States as the central bank. He also pushed ...