Why did the Jacksonian democrats believe the following things?

Question

The federal government should remain as inactive as possible.
The individual states should be responsible for internal improvements.
A national bank should nt be in exsistence.

Answer 1

Because they did not believe in a strong central government (disliking the example of Britain many of them had lived under) and valuing individual freedom. In contrast, the Federalists wanted to solve problems of the new nation at the national level. Do not mistake the name for the current Democrat party.

Answer 2

1. They did NOT believe this. They believed the opposite. Jackson was a very active president, vetoing more acts of Congress than all previous president's combined. He also used the government to destroy the Second Bank of the United States. Therefore the first claim is entirely false.

2. Jackson did not feel that federal monies whould be poured into states for local improvements, but they were not alone in this. Going back as far as the Democratic-Republicans of Madison, Monroe, and Adams, they too did not fund such internal improvements as the Erie Canal, various railroad lines, and Jackson refused to allow the government to fund the Maysville Road bill

3. Jackson felt the Second Bank of the United only represented the rich, fat-cats of the eastern states and also the British investors that held interest in it. He felt it took advantage of the poor farmers out west (who referred to the Bank as "The Monster.") Therefore Jackson began draining the bank's funds by placing them in various, smaller "pet banks" and soon the bank was gone and with it the nation's financial stability. Jackson left office in 1837 and a few months later the worst financial panic of the century took place--The Panic of 1837.


And there you have it.