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The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum America

 * Andrew jackson drew many supporters to his presidency and beliefs. But along with supporters came many opposers and the formation of the Whig Party.
 * The Second Party System was developed over pressure and suggestions from the general public, and this made the second party system.
 * The second party system was a period of new developing political parties that opposed others in the presidential elections. The more parties that competed, the tighter the race to victory became.
 * The debate over States' Rights over National Power, also known as the Webster-Hayne debate was started as a suggestion to temporarily disable all sales of western lands and western land surveys by a Connecticut senator.
 * Robert Hayne was also a senator, but from South carolina. he opposed the suggestion and proposed it was said to make it easier for the North to expand and maintain their wealth and power over the rest of the nation.
 * The Bank War was an opposition to credit currency by Jackson, because he used credit to run a business prior to his presidency, and went bankrupt due to the Panic of 1797, and he opposed the Bank of the United States.
 * Jackson's refusal to issue a new charter for the bank caused severe economic problems for all of society, because the main bank was down, while small "Pet Banks" flourished with the governments money.
 * The Bank of the United states died in 1835, and the economic crisis and unstable banking system that was left plagued the nation for over the next century with depressions and unstable banking systems.
 * The Tariff of 1816, also known as the "Tariff of Abominations", was believed to be responsible for the economic crisis and poor economy in South Carolina.
 * This belief was widespread, even though the real reason for the failing state economy was the poor quality of South Carolina farmland which produced very small amounts of crops, and left citizens no way to become prospirous.
 * The South Carolina farmlands were in no position to compete with the new fertile soils of the Southwest, and therefore the economy had nothing to grow on because all crops were being harvested and sold from the new Southwest farmland, no longer from South Carolina.