Andrew Jackson Dbq Essay

Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States of America serving between the years, 1829-1839, or a total of two presidential terms.

Jackson was born in March 15th, of 1767 in Waxhaws, which is a city in the northern area of South Carolina. He had been attending elementary schools in the area, but the revolutionary war ended his childhood. Much of his family was wiped out during the war. At the age of 15, the young war torn Andrew Jackson drifted off and taught a bit of school, but then he started to study law. In 1787 he accepted the job to serve as a public prosecutor in the new Mero District of North Carolina. As time went by, he became more financially educated and started to buy land as well as slaves.

Later on, in 1791

This act would remove all of the Indians from “The land of the United States” and send them off to reservations mainly in Oklahoma. Document 6 shows the map of south western modern day United states and has lines all pointing to one area, the lines of course representing the Indians. This act was completely against the ideal of democracy. Remember that democracy is all for the people and the people having the power. Apparently the Indians weren’t people and they were completely abandoned and looked at as a waste of space and resources. Democracy isn’t only benefiting certain people, and giving certain people the power, it’s about everybody receiving the benefits and the power. In Document 5, in a letter to congress, Jackson states, “No one can doubt the moral duty of the Government … To protect and if possible preserve and perpetuate scattered remnants of this race…” To speak about a race is not just undemocratic, but inhumate. For the words coming out of the leader of a nation, and a super powerful and well respected nation is just shameful. In Jackson’s speech to Congress on the indian removal he said, “The pecuniary advantages which it promises to the Government are the least of its recommendations.” Now democracy is not only benefiting a certain group of people, but all people and this sentence is a statement of greed and all he wants is to be better for his country and just screw all of the rest of the people that are living with them. They were even here before the Americans arrived. So Jackson completely screwed another population of people to benefit his own, that my friends is the opposite of spreading democracy. However in Document 7, a letter from President Jackson to his wife regarding their indian son, “He is the only branch of his family left, and the others when offered to them to take care of would have nothing to do with him but wanted him to be