1. Jackson, the epitome of the frontiersman, resented the bank's lack of funding for expansion into the unsettled Western territories.
2. Believing that social cleavages and inequities were fostered rather than ameliorated by governmental intervention, he embraced laissez-faire as the policy most conducive to economic equality and political liberty. Jackson was both a fiery patriot and a strident partisan.
Samuel Cloud on the Trail of Tears (1838)
1. Samuel recounts how his people are forcibly removed from their homes, kept for months in stockades, and herded westward without proper food or clothing.