The USA's last trade surplus was in 1975.
Because the American people where scared that if they gave people that much power over them, like there would be in a strong central government, then the same tyranny that happened with King George and Great Britain, would happen again in their own government.
The central theme of Andrew Jackson’s campaign in the 1828 elections was that he would fight for the "common man," since he was running against "big business" and the banks that were thought to be hurting the lives of "average" Americans.
