The first idea of “big presidency” that Andrew Jackson began to show was the Bank war of the 1830’s. Jackson Began to campaign on the idea to destroy the Second Bank of the United States. In 1832, Jackson had vetoed a bill calling for an early renewal of the second Bank’s charter. Jackson set out to reduce the Second Bank's economic power and prevent the renewal of the Charter. Although congressional committees and cabinet members had gave JAckson advice to stand back he ignored it. In 1833 Jackson announced that Federal funds would no longer be deposited in the Bank of the United States. Instead, He began to put the funds in smaller state banks. In 1836 President Jackson had won the Bank War, federal deposits never were returned to the Second Bank and its charter expired in 1836. The second idea that President Jackson gave us for his “big presidency” was the Nullification Crisis. The crisis started with a confrontation between the state of south carolina and the federal government. The government attempted to declare a null and void in the state federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832. South carolina believed that the nullification doctrine disagreed with the right of states to nullify federal acts within their boundaries. John C Calhoun further the nullification process by writing a response to…show more content… The united states had acquired over 828,000 square miles of land that was sold from the french in what's known as the Louisiana purchase for 15 million dollars. The land extended from the rocky mountains the the mississippi river. This almost doubled the size of the united states. The price for Americans to buy an acre was only 4 cents. The westward expansion began immediately and the first state to join the union was louisiana. Some believed that since the constitution never spelled out the purchase of new lands, that our government had no right to make such a large
