Essay About First Populist President And South Carolina

Andrew Jackson
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Andrew Jackson was born in maxhaws march 15 1767.He was the seventh president and he was the first populist president who did not come from the aristocracy. He was the first to have his vice-president resign. He was the first to marry a divorcee he was the first to be to be nominated at a national convention his second term. The first to use an informal kitchen cabinet of advisers and the first to use the pocket veto to kill a congressional bill. He believed in a strong presidency and he voted a dozen pieces of legislation more then the first six presidents put together. He also believed in a strong union and this and this belief brought him in to open opposition with southern legislators especially those from South Carolina. South Carolina thought the 1832 tariff signed by President Jackson was much to high. In retaliation the South Carolina legislature passed an ordinance of nullification which rejected the tariff invalid in South Carolina. Jackson was as far from being a states righter as it was possible to be and issued a presidential proclamation against South Carolina. The whole congress supported Jacksons position on the issue and a compromise tariff was passed in 1833. The immediate crisis passed but the incident was a precursor of the positions that would lead almost thirty years later to the war between the states. Jacksons health was never good and never good and there were times during his presidency when it seemed he would not live to complete it he did and in 1837 retired to his Nashville home which he and Rachel had named the hermitage. When th was first