Was Jackson's Presidency Good Or Bad Overall?

Question #1
The compromises and decisions on slavery by congress and the Supreme Court on slavery between 1850 and 1860. Slavey was a controversial topic in America… Many different political parties were formed with different ideas on slavery. These parties include the Whig, Free soil, and Democratic parties. America gained land from the Louisiana Purchase, Mexican American war, and other means. In these territories states began to form and as they reached requirements for admission into the United States they would apply for admission. As these states attempted gain admission into the United States the debate of rather, they would be slave states or free states, and weather slavery should be abolished all together, created heavy controversy

Make sure to discuss the big controversies/events in some detail and explain WHY they were controversial. Finally, in your opinion, was Jackson’s presidency good or bad overall? Explain WHY you think it was good or bad.
In 1828 Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams to become the seventh President of the United States. Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams had a nasty election. Each candidate attacked each other on a personal level. Jacksons marriage was attacked, saying he remarried before he had divorced his pervious wife. Meanwhile Adams was attacked being called an elitist and that he offered the Russian emperor a prostitute form America. Jackson came from two Irish immigrants who were killed during the Revolutionary War by disease with two of his brothers. Jackson was a military man most famously serving in War of 1812 where he gained the nickname “Old Hickory” (Locke, Wright, 2019). Andrew Jackson had a very controversial presidency with both lots of support and even more criticism.
Thesis: Although Andrew Jackson helped democracy grow, his treatment toward national banks, the nullification crisis, the Cherokee’s caused him to have a very controversial

A major way that Jackson did this was by the expansion of suffrage in the states. Jackson extended the right to vote and participate in American politics to all white males regardless of class or land ownership (Locke, Wright, 2019). Now that people from all social classes could vote it changed the face of politics. This now meant that the “Common Man” could also become a politician rather than just the elite seen in the past. Although women and Africa-American men, including some free men, still did not have the right to participate in politics, the removal of class from suffrage was a major steppingstone for the democracy scene