Map of Kentucky

The veto on the Maysville Road bill was a smart move by President Andrew Jackson. The Maysville road bill was the funding by the federal government of a 60 mile road that connected Maysville and Lexington Kentucky. Jackson did not oppose the bill, but instead believed that the federal government should not have to provide funding for a road connecting two places located in the same state. He supported the idea of Federalism by doing this. Although, if Jackson had passed the bill, it would have allowed Westward expansion to increase as traveling far distances without roads was very strenuous. None the less, because Jackson had vetoed the law he forced the Kentucky state government to find some way to fund the road, therefore not wasting any of the federal banks money on something that should be funded by the state.

Mayfield Road Veto