Expanding Presidential Powers

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Expanding Presidential Powers

• How six presidents changed America

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1. Andy Jackson

• 7th president, 1829-1837
• First poor president born in a log cabin in
  South Carolina backwoods.
• Taught himself law by reading books

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• Made a name for himself as a war hero
• Fought southern Indian tribes
• Fought against British in War of 1812
• Had Anglophobia, hatred of all things British

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• Jackson believed Congress was full of elitist
  upper class men (anglophobia)
• Wanted to return the power of the government back
  over to the people
• Allowed the public to party at the Whitehouse on
  Inauguration night!
• Also allowed people to come speak with him at his
  office without an appointment

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Hordes of people attend Inaugural Party

• -Jackson has to
• escape out of a
• window and
• spend the night
• in a shack out
• back.

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1,400 lbs consumed in 2 hours
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• Jackson was fierce and not afraid to tick off
  Congress
• First to use the veto for political purposes
  instead of mere Constitutional purposes
• He refused to reauthorize the charter for the
  National Bank b/c he believed it was corrupt and
  that smaller banks should be allowed to compete
  with it

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-What Andy Jackson thought of the National Bank
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• Jackson also ordered the Cherokee tribe off their
  land in the South and forced them to march to
  Indian Territory in Oklahoma-Trail of Tears
• Supreme Court told him it was illegal since
  Congress didnt authorize it, but he said, well,
  let them enforce it

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