Jackson Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
The remarkable changes in the U.S. domestic environment before and during Jackson's presidency presented the government with a host of new problems. While the nation continued to expand into its western frontier, resulting in the growth of an independent pioneer population who profited from skyrocketing land values, the Industrial Revolution had produced powerful urban centers in the North and the East. The nation's expansion into the American frontier created new tensions among settlers and American Indians. Rural Americans clamored for more land, some of which was legally occupied by the American Indians under previous treaties with the federal government. At the same time, the rise to prominence of Northern cities left many Americans in the South, who still relied on a primarily agricultural economy, feeling overlooked and even victimized by a government that appeared to be growing more sympathetic to urban...
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