Question

President Jackson was censured by the United States __________ for his decision to allow the Second Bank of the United States’ charter to lapse.

Answer 1

The correct answer is Senate.

Answer 2

President Jackson was censured by the United States Congress.

Jackson resented the bank’s lack of funding for expansion into the unsettled Western territories. He was also opposed to the bank’s peculiar political and economic power and to the lack of congressional oversight over its activities.