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Americans went to the polls in the fall of 1824. Though Jackson won the popular vote, he did not win enough Electoral College votes to be elected. The decision fell to the House of Representatives, who met on February 9, 1825.
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Jackson's policy of replacing federal employees was bitterly denounced by his political opponents. But they were essentially powerless to fight against it. ... Jackson's opponents cited it often as an example of blatant corruption that rewarded political supporters with federal jobs
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.
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Nullification crisis, in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
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Andrew Jackson opposed the National Bank b/c he thought it was unconstitutional and it gave too much economic power to capitalists. In 1832, Nicholas Biddle, the president of the National Bank, wanted to renew the bank's charter. Andrew, however, vetoed his charter b/c of his hate toward the bank.
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In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.