The Jacksonians considered the Second Bank of the United States to be an illegitimate corporation whose charter violated state sovereignty, posing an implicit threat to the agriculture-based economy dependent upon the Southern states' widely practiced institution of slavery.
1 A male duck is called a drake, a female is called a duck. 2  Babies are called ducklings. 3  Ducks are related to geese and swans. 4  The duck is the smallest of them all and have shorter necks and wings and a stout body.
Few other birds don such a dramatic and colorful costume for breeding as the male Mandarin Duck! Some say these ducks are showy and gaudy, but I think they are gorgeous! Mandarin Ducks are relatives of another beautiful duck, the Wood duck.escription. Mandarin and Wood ducks are the only ducks that have silver-white on the leading edge of their flight feathers. The male Mandarin Duck has an overall âgoldenâ appearance. He sports a long blue, green and copper crest which droops down his neck.