Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States of America. He was also well-known as ‘Old Hickory’ because of the old hickory cane that he would carry everywhere with him as well as beating people senselessly with. President Jackson was seen as completely insane for the crazy things he would do, including as mentioned above, beating people with his old hickory cane. But all of his insanity had a beginning. It all started when people would call Jackson and his wife bigamists, which then this reputation would follow her for quite some time. After the chatter continued about her, she decided to withdraw herself from the public eye and focus more on her religious aspects. But that did not stop the people, they later used her adultery …show more content…
So, when President Jackson was finally elected president in 1829, he had one of the largest rally of people at his inauguration. It was a crowd consisting of around twenty thousand people, some who traveled miles and miles to just hear and see their newly elected President speak. After his speech, he arrived to the White House with people already in the house. As the party continued, more people started to arrive and the house was getting over crowded. They could not get the people out of the house, so the party lasted for days, this party nearly destroyed the White House. The house was so packed and no one would leave leading President Jackson having to sneak out of his own residence. They were later able to draw the crowd out of the house successfully with even more …show more content…
So at first, he did not outwardly speak against the National Bank, even though he was completely against it. He was leaning more toward the idea of having ‘soft money’ available, meaning that the money was more easily and quickly accessible than the ‘hard money’, like gold and silver. Soon enough, President Jackson had his crazy ways of doing things and when he wanted something, he was like ‘a dog with a bone’ and would not stop until he succeeded in his plan. Jackson would lead brutal attacks toward the bank in the papers, he even vetoed the Bank Recharter Bill as well to get what he wanted. Jackson also ordered the federal government's deposits removed from the Bank of the United States. Everyone seemed afraid of Andrew Jackson, which few dared to go against him. There were people that would refuse to do what he asked, like when he was trying to end the Second National Back of the United States, but when they refused he continuously fired his advisers for not going what he asked and he kept going until he found someone that do the tasks without a problem. When this happened, President Jackson was finally able to go the distance to putting an end to the Second National