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To deal with this problem, newspapers appealed to the masses for support with clothing and with shoes, and soup kitchens were established in cities to help feed the homeless and the poor. The government, for the time, did little to help the impoverished, since the government was to blame for the problem in the first place. The national bank would remain under scrutiny and a main topic of debate for years. Petitions for the abolition of debtor's prison were filed by men who were put into prison for not being able to pay their debts off. Manufacturing firms pressed the government for greater protection from foreign imports. The panic ended in 1823, but it left an impression that would influence future policies to come. .
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Andrew Jackson was a president that used the power of the presidency to the fullest, and would crush any opposition to his policies. Jackson's brutal tactics and use of power created opposition from high ranking political and national figures. This opposition began calling themselves the Whigs, since they were opposed to what they called tyrannical rule of Jackson. The Whigs took their name from the party that in earlier England had been opposed to the Kings rule.
The Whigs, unlike their democratic counterparts, believed in the expansion of the federal government's power, they encouraged commercial and industrial development, and they believed that the country should be one, consolidated economic system. To achieve this idea of a powerful and centrally economic nation, the Whigs did not favor westward expansion; rather they favored the establishment of banks, corporations, factories, and other industrial centers. These ideas and beliefs brought support for the Whig party from those individuals that favored industrialization and a strong government. .
The Whigs needed a victory in the presidential election if they were to solidify their position as a powerful party and opposition to the Democrats.
