many considered Andrew Jackson's election a second revolution it was the first time someone from a western state was elected and the election of 1828 was the first that all states had popular voting to choose the electors to select a president in his inaugural address Jackson spoke about the need for Union Jack without Union our independence and Liberty would never have been achieved without Union they never can be maintained divided into 24 or even a smaller number of separate communities we shall see our internal trade burdened with numberless restraints and exactions communication between distant points and sections obstructed or cut off our sons made soldiers to delude with blood the fields they now till in peace the mass of our people borne down and impoverished by taxes to support armies and navies and military leaders at the head of their Victorious Legions becoming our lawgivers and judges the loss of Liberty of all good government of Peace plenty and happiness must inevitably follow a disillusion of the Union Jackson was a strong president and expanded the powers of the office he used the power of veto extensively even being the first to use the pocket veto where he simply did not sign a law within 10 days of the end of the Congressional term thus Congress could not even override the veto Jackson used the power of the office together with his own popularity to stare down South Carolina in the nullification crisis when they refused to allow the implementation of higher tariffs jaon was a strong opponent of the Second Bank of the United States whose Charter he refused to have renewed the bank was a hated institution by many farmers and his actions on the bank only made him more popular Jackson's actions regarding the Native Americans remain controversial he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Indian Removal Act which forcibly removed Native Americans from their lands in Georgia and forced them to move to Oklahoma Jackson left office as popular as when he first entered it