He would go to what people called his "kitchen cabinet." although he had appointed a formal cabinet, he would rarely use them. The people in the kitchen cabinet were a bunch of his friends that he...
Andrew Jackson believed that Annexing Texas would create more sectionalism, as the slave and abolition advocates would fight over whether it should be slave state or not. In a sense, he was correct,...
He stood up to the people who argued for nullification, made a strong legal case against the idea and made it clear that he would use all the means he had available to enforce federal laws even if...