on the left, you have andrew jackson, a tennessee democrat who we studied at some length here, and on the right, henry clay, a kentucky whig. between clay and jackson, we get two very different views of what america should look like and i have two political cartoons to show how in the second party system, new issues were emerging. for example, the question of the bank. this is the second bank of the united states and in this image we see andrew jackson on the left holding a cane which he usually walked with, with all his bullet wounds from his duels, trying to battle back the many-headed hydra which is a mythical creature from greek mythology but here it stands in for the bank. on each of the heads of the hydra is an individual who was representing the bank, the most prominent one in the center here was nicholas biddle who was the president of the bank and who became a kind of enemy to jackson in this process. so this is something of a satire