What did Andrew Jackson do during the nullification crisis to get himself into the impeachment process?

what did he do that was so bad? i really want 2 know in detail


thanks in advance|||The censure of Andrew Jackson by the US Senate was as a result of the manipulation of the cabinet concerning the Bank of the US. The Congress as a whole, was strongly behind his actions over Nullification.





The president can appoint interim cabinet officers while Congress is not in session. This is what happened with the series of Secretaries of the Treasury, designates, that were appointed and later fired for not re-directing US deposits from the BUS to the State banks. Congress was not in session, and Jackson was using this opportunity to get a man in who would do what he wanted and then once the re-direction of US funds was accomplished, he'd deal with the review process later. Not a bad strategy politically, really.





He did eventually find one who would do the deed, and this was used by the Senate to censure him, since the Senate had the power to advise and consent to the appointment. The Senate at the time (the word Senate here is pronounced Henry Clay) believed that the President didn't have the authority to fire his appointees, without Senate consent.





There's a partisan motive here (is there anything in Congress that hasn't one?) because Clay was a major supporter of the Bank, and chair of the Finance committee who would investigate the Treasury appointment. Add to this that in 1824, while Clay was Speaker of the House, he had used his influence to direct his supporters to vote for John Quincy Adams instead of Andrew Jackson.





The electoral process was more complicated then, third parties and multiple candidates for President were legion, and Clay's strategy for getting elected President often involved there being no clear majority for any single candidate, thus throwing the election to the House of Representatives, where he had a lot of influence. In 1824, there were 4 candidates for President, the votes going to Adams, Jackson, Clay and Crawford. These four divided up the electoral vote so that no one person had more than 50% of the entire college vote (hypothetically, with 300 votes, it would take 151 for one candidate, and these 4 divided up the votes more like 125, 100, 50, and 25, if the number 3 man throws his votes to the number one man, the number 1 man is president, while it would need the number 3 and 4 men to throw their votes to the number 2 man to elect him)





What actually happened was that Clay threw his votes to Adams, who was elected, and (both Adams and Clay said there was no connection) a few weeks later Adams asked Clay to be his Secretary of State, a post from which more men had been elected President than any other post. There had been 4 former Secretaries of State elected President from among the first 6 Presidents.





This election and the appointment that followed, was what the Democrats referred to as "the corrupt bargain".





Jackson was definitely the type to hold a grudge,among his last words were that he regretted not having killed Henry Clay.|||I'm sorry that I can't answer you in full detail, but I know that he fired someone that he couldn't fire because of something in the Constitution. If you need to know the answer right now, you could always Google it.|||Check out the wikipedia entry.


I did not find any reference to impeachment of Jackson - athough Andrew Johnson was almost impeached in 1868