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U.S. President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

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Andrew Jackson

President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he rose to fame as a U.S. Army general and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy became the basis for the rise of Jacksonian democracy.…
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Second Bank of the United States

American national bank (1816–41)

The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836. The bank's formal name, according to section 9 of its…
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