ISI Faculty Resource Center

Websites

• Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791 by Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson and the Bankwar by Tony D'Urso

• Daniel Webster and the War on the Second Bank of the United States by Paul Rastatter

• Speech on President Jackson’s Veto of the Bank Bill in Senate, July 10, 1832 by Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson -- Web Biography

• The Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States Rationale and Effects by Gareth Davis

  From homepage: The motivation behind this paper is to analyse from the perspective of a historian of economic thought and policy the rationale and implications of the destruction of the Second bank of the United States. The account is valuable…

• The Celebrated Bank War ( Digital History )

Legal Documents

• Jackson's Bank Veto by Andrew Jackson

• Jackson's Message to the Bank , 1836 by Andrew Jackson

• McCullough v. Maryland, 1819 by John Marshall

Audio Clips

• Andrew Jackson

  This is a seminar led by Robert Remini is about changes that occurred in America during the age of Jackson. From the Teaching American History website: The focus of the seminar will be the evolutionary changes that occurred in American…

Images

• Henry Clay ( Images of American Political History )

• Caricature of a Banker ( Images of American Political History )

• Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser, clearing Uncle Sam's barn of bank and Clay rats; ... ( Library of Congress )

  Library of Congress SUMMARY: A rare pro-Jackson satire on the President's campaign to destroy the political power and influence of the Bank of the United States. It was probably issued late in the presidential campaign of 1832, after Jackson's July…

• The political barbecue ( Library of Congress )

  Library of Congress SUMMARY: Andrew Jackson is roasted over the fires of "Public Opinion" by the figure of Justice in a cartoon relating to the controversy surrounding Jackson's removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. Jackson…

• The doctors puzzled or the desparate case of Mother U.S. Bank ( Library of Congress )

  Libarary of Congress Summary: A satire directed against the United States Bank, showing the impact of Jackson's September 1833 order for the withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank and their distribution among state banks. In a bedchamber the Bank…

• Explosion of Biddle & Cos. Congress Water Fount ( Library of Congress )

  Library of Congress Summary: A satire on the failure of the combined efforts of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Nicholas Biddle to thwart Andrew Jackson's treasury policy. In 1833 Jackson ordered that federal deposits be removed from the…

• Genl. Andrew Jackson, 1828. Protector & defender of beauty & booty, ( Library )

• Andrew Jackson ( Library of Congress )

• Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John Caldwell Calhoun ( Library of Congress )

• The people putting responsibility to the test or the downfall of the kitchen cabinet and collar presses ( Library of Congress )

  Library of Congress Summary: A prediction of dire consequences to follow from Jackson's withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank of the United States, initiated late in 1833. The artist is harshly critical of Jackson's move to distribute federal treasury…

• Roger B. Taney ( Library of Congress )

Books

• Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President by James Marquis

• The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein

• Andrew Jackson and the Bank War; a Study in the Growth of Presidential Power by Robert V. Remini

• The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun by Merrill D. Peterson

  Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other…

Transcripts or Manuscripts

• Senate Speech on Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill

Articles

• "A Bank on Parnassus" Nicholas Biddle and the Beauty of Banking by Jeffrey Sklansky

Maps

• Map of Election of 1832