Transcript President Andrew Jackson - James E. Walker Library

President Andrew Jackson
Tyrant or Maverick?
ISSUES
• National Bank
• Nullification
• Indian removal
OR…
…and yet
In conclusion:
• Jackson has stretched the limits of executive
power by
– removing federal funds from the national bank;
waging political war on his opponents
– disregarding the Supreme Court’s decision
concerning Indian Removal
• However, he was well within his rights as
president to wield the veto and to nip
nullification in the bud