d of guarding equality of economic opportunity among the people. The government did not penalize the wealthy or intervene in economic affairs to aid the poor, and many private and government restrictions that concerned economics were lifted while Jackson was in office. In theory, any person had the freedom of opening a bank, provided the minimum amount of funding existed, and the success of the bank depended both on the actions taken by the individual bank and the general economic situation of the United States. While the nature of this arrangement was unsystematic and, to a small extent ineffective in the south and west reg
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