”Jackson and the Bank”
Robin Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley

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Robin Einhorn link is Professor of History at UC Berkeley. She received her PhD. from the University of Chicago and has written numerous articles and books on public policy and the history of taxation in the United States.

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Other references:

President Jackson's Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States; July 10, 1832
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco > American Currency Exhibit http://www.frbsf.org/currency/index.html

The Bank War and Its Consequences (I Cue Video)
http://www.icue.com/portal/site/iCue/iCueHistoryCourseHomePage

The life and death of the Second Bank of the United States
Article by Phil Davies, Senior Writer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
http://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=4046

Political cartoon > "The downfall of Mother Bank"
A pro-Jackson satire applauding the President's September 1833 order for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@1(cph+3a04717))

Political cartoon > "General Jackson slaying the many headed monster"
A satire on Andrew Jackson's campaign to destroy the Bank of the United States and its support among state banks.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@1(cph+3a04717))