Whigs in Congress proved to be major opponents in their attempts to pass legislation which Jackson believed favored the elite, including a bill to renew the charter for the Second Bank of ... his ...

Jackson threatened to collect the funds at gunpoint. The state backed down. When Whigs in Congress brought up a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States -- a private institution that ...

Inconveniently, Jackson was long a Democratic icon, nominated for his second term in ... He paid off the national debt. In vetoing the re-charter of the national bank, he established the precedent ...