Jackson’s most famous blow for democratic politics was his war on the second Bank of the United States. ... Andrew Jackson did more than any other president to turn the Founding Fathers ...

On this day in 1833, President Andrew Jackson announced that the government would no longer deposit federal funds in the Second Bank of the United States, the quasi-governmental national bank. He ...

Historian Daniel Feller revisited Andrew Jackson's bank war of the 1830s, a political struggle to challenge and even cripple the powerful Bank of the United States, the young country's only ...

But this was disingenuous: Jackson’s hatred for the Bank of the United States grew to immense proportions. In private, he labeled it a “hydra-headed monster” that he swore he would slay.

In the 1800s, populist president Andrew Jackson went head-to-head with the most powerful banker in America over who should control the country's money. This clash ended in disastrous results.

In fact, Jackson didn’t really like banks, either: he famously called the delegation of bankers discussing the charter of the Second Bank of the United States “a den of vipers and thieves ...

Toward the end of the Obama administration, the Treasury Department recommended that President Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill be replaced with one of Harriet Tubman, a black leader in ...

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Nearly 200 years after his death, Andrew Jackson is stepping away from the United States' cultural consciousness. Jackson will soon no longer appear on the front of the $20 bill, capping a decades ...

Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States in 1829 after running as an anti-establishment candidate who would fight corruption and the entrenched aristocracy.