<span>Individual state governments</span>
Obviously the poor had no money, so the bosses of say New York would pay clueless immigrants to vote for them in elections to keep them in high city offices and to continue holding power.
<span>In July 1836, Andrew Jackson issued the Specie Circular, which required that public lands be purchased using "gold or silver," since it was thought that this would be better for the US economy. </span>
