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1836 cartoon shows President Andrew Jackson, left, Vice President Martin Van Buren, center, and the Jacksonian era’s Forrest Gump figure, Major Jack Downing, slaying the many headed Hydra monster representing the Second Bank of the United States and its state bank support. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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