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The fight between president Andrew Jackson and the president of the second Bank of the United States, Nicholas Biddle, was not only over the BUS, but over democracy also.

In 1835 the first assassination attempt of a president took place. A mentally ill man, influenced by the prevalent political rancor, took a shot at Andrew Jackson.

More than virtually any other previous President, Andrew Jackson was elected on the popular vote and as a result saw himself as the representative of the people.

Amos Kendall was a key advisor in Andrew Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet and a key figure in the development of communications in the nineteenth century.

Despite their widely different backgrounds, Jackson and Roosevelt have a number of significant similarities in their public careers.

James K Polk was the first dark horse President and the last strong President until the American Civil War.

Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" was a progressive version of Jacksonian philosophy which called for the regulation of competition.