He used a constitutional method, the presidential veto power, to protect America from something he viewed as unconstitutional. .
Daniel Webster's reply to Jackson's veto of the BUS can accurately depict how the supporters of the Bank and the rich and powerful are upset with Jackson's veto. Webster says that the veto "raises a cry that liberty is in danger" and "effects alarm for the public freedom." Though it may seem that Webster's opinion was biased from his being a Whig, it does truthfully show how the rich and the supporters of the bank felt. .
Jackson also instituted the spoils system which was to reward Jackson's supporters. Since Jackson's supporters were the common man, Jackson helped the common man to have office jobs. Jackson believed that an office job was able to be done by anyone, so he allowed the common man a chance to take the job. He wanted to get rid of the people that have been in office too long because he believed that they have become indifferent to public opinion. Though it did not include the rich and the nonwhites, it was a step towards equality of economic opportunity. In 1834, Harriet Martineau reports of her visit and what she saw was "the absence of poverty, of gross ignorance, of all servility, and all insolence of manner cannot be exaggerated in description."(Doc D) According to this source, the areas of America that Harriet has seen had people that were the effects of economic opportunity. Now that poverty was absent, it meant that he people had more money due to the economic opportunities. Servility was also absent, meaning that there was progress with America's focus on white majority. .
Conversely, Harriet also states that she "had been less than three weeks in the country" showing that she was in America for a very short time. In that short amount of time she could not have seen many areas of America, thus her reports of America are not completely accurate.
