Major Events of Presidency:
- As a result of Jackson's election, second party system created
- Webster/Hayne debate on states rights and national power
- Veto of Maysville Road Bill
- Indian Removal Act passed
- Anti-Mason party established, which attacks democrats like Andrew Jackson
- Worcester v. Georgia ruling upholds exclusive right of the federal government to regulate U.S. citizens access to Cherokee country
- Jackson's use of the spoils system in order to gain support from followers
- First National Party Convention held to nominate Jackson as their party candidate, first time such a meeting held in America
- Jackson vetoes second recharter bill for the Bank of the United States, Henry Clay attempts to use this issue to defeat Jackson in the next election but fails
- Nullification Crisis occurs, where South Carolina attempts to nullify the Tariff of Abominations
- Jackson and Taney remove federal deposits from B.U.S. and into smaller state banks
- Economic depression occurs as part of boom and bust cycles
- Indian Trade and Intercourse Act, which regulated trade between tribes and Americans, renewed
- John Marshall succeeded by Rodger Taney as Chief Justice of Supreme Court
- Federal debt retired (debt eliminated)
- De Tocquville publishes his book Democracy in America, which gives his opinions on the nation's government and its citizens
- Black Hawk War between Natives and frontier Americans
- Removal Act relocated some Native American tribes to reservations
- Second Seminole War begins
- Jackson's "specie circular," in which government land only be traded for gold/silver coins or currency back by this, issued