Nicholas Biddle

Nicholas Biddle Deliberately Contracts Credit to Create "Biddle's Panic" and Force Bank Recharter

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Following Andrew Jackson’s September 1833 removal of federal deposits from the Second Bank of the United States, Bank president Nicholas Biddle responds by deliberately contracting credit nationwide to create economic distress and force Jackson to reverse his policy. Biddle raises interest …

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Jackson Vetoes Second Bank Recharter, Triggering Financial Manipulation by Both Sides

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President Andrew Jackson vetoes legislation to renew the Second Bank of the United States’ charter, four years before its scheduled expiration, delivering a “popular and effective” message declaring the Bank “unauthorized by the Constitution, subversive to the rights of …

Andrew Jackson Nicholas Biddle Henry Clay Daniel Webster Second Bank of the United States financial-manipulation institutional-corruption economic-policy jackson-era banking-system
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