Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He is known for founding the Democratic Party and for his support of individual liberty. Jackson was favored by most of the people of United States when he was campaigning which eventually led to him winning against John Quincy Adams and later on his re-election. Andrew Jackson was a very impactedful president, and there are many major events that happened during his presidency. Many of these events are almost never mentioned in modern day history, but these events are still poignant in American history. Three of the most important events that happened during Jackson’s presidency are his Inaguration Day, the Indian Removal Act of 1830/Trail of Tears, and his fight again the Bank …show more content…
On the day on Jackson’s Inauguration Day there was a big party after he was inaugurated. This part had a lot of alcohol along with it being an open invite so everyone and anyone was allowed to show up. Problem was, the White House wasn’t prepared for the crowd. Most historians say it was a wild party where furniture was destroyed and different mobs of people had to be lured outside with punch. Others say the riotous atmosphere was fabricated into lore by Jackson’s enemies. These details about the party eventually leads to Jackson being a very lenient president. This leniency eventually led to the Spoils System which involved Jackson getting rid of his politically inclined Congress and replacing the Congress with his friends who have no experience. Many people of America didn’t agree to this system which caused chaos throughout the country. Even though many people disagreed with Jackson’s decisions, based off of his leniency, others did like it because the people had never experienced it before in US history. The people of America liked and still do like change and that what the Americans got under Andrew Jackson as …show more content…
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 is a law that was signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. As the demand for farmland grew, settlers again looked on the lands of Native Americans in the South and West. When Chief Justice Marshall ruled in their favor, Jackson refused to comply. Instead, federal agents signed a treaty with a group of Cherokee leaders willing to leave. In 1838, the army forced the remaining 20,000 Cherokee to march west. This is the time where the name the Trail of Tears was created by the Cherokee Tribe. This highlights Jackson’s presidency because it shows that he supported a strong federal government. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 gave the federal government more control over the Native Americans because the federal government were able to move over 60,000 Native Americans to the west. This act showed that Jackson was capable of making big decisions and that he was a effective and efficient
Andrew Jackson was President of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Some call his term a triumph and some a tragedy. A big part of his tragedy was the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Jackson wanted to remove the native tribes from lands in the eastern and southern United States (Stock). Jackson referred to the Native Americans as savages and supported Georgia’s efforts to seize Cherokee land and nullify the tribe’s laws (Foner).
Andrew Jackson, (1829-1837), born on March 15, 1767 between the Carolinas. He was the first President not born of wealth. In addition to his presidency, Jackson was known for his military successes and for laying the groundwork for the modern Democratic Party. Because of his toughness and his will he was given the nickname "Old Hickory." Although he was known as a man of the people, Jackson believed in and promoted slavery and took millions of acres of land from Native Americans.
Jackson presidency was marked as a new era in Indian-Anglo American relations by imitating a policy of Indian removal. Even before he was elected President, Jackson opposed Washington’s policy of establishing treaties with Indian tribes as if they were foreign nations. Once he came in office, he started his plan of the removal act which he found it to be a violation of state sovereignty under the Article IV, section 3 of the Constitution. It was in his second annual message to Congress on December 6, 1830, that he informs them of his progress with the removal plan, stating that the plan were moving smoothly and explain how it benefits everyone involved. He argued that it was for the Indians own good for them to be resettled to a new plot of
In 1830, just a year after taking office, Jackson pushed a new piece of legislation called the "Indian Removal Act" through both houses of Congress. It gave the president power to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi. Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their lands east of the Mississippi in exchange for lands to the west. Those wishing to remain in the east would become citizens of their home state. This act affected not only the southeastern nations, but many others further north.
He fought against the National Bank and opposed the form of currency currently in place. However, what is remembered most for was his part in relocating the Native Americans in what was named the “Indian Removal Act”. Andrew Jackson served in office only two terms and did not seek a third. Vice president Martin Van Buren became the eight president
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This Act forced the indians from their lands to designated areas west of the Mississippi River. This is a definite change in Federal policy towards Native Americans. In the Treaty of Hopewell and Worcester v. Georgia the u.s government recognized the Cherokee ownership of land.
The Indian Removal Act was signed in 1830 by President Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee Indians from their homes and force them to settle west of the Mississippi River. The act was passed in hopes to gain agrarian land that would replenish the cotton industry which had plummeted after the Panic of 1819. Andrew Jackson believed that effectively forcing the Cherokees to become more civilized and to christianize them would be beneficial to them. Therefore, he thought the journey westward was necessary. In late 1838, the Cherokees were removed from their homes and forced into a brutal journey westward in the bitter cold.
Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States. He was born in 1767 on the South Carolina frontier. He had a hot temper and would pick up fights easily. When The American Revolution happened, it ended his childhood. Jackson joined the local militia and was captured by the British.
Andrew Jackson was seen as a common man the voice of the people by some. By others he was King Andrew, trampling the constitution and instigating tyranny. Jackson’s presidency impacted democracy, through his use of the veto power, and his claim of Clay creating a “corrupt bargain”, which is not a turning point for a rise in democracy despite him giving white male suffrage. During Jackson’s use of executive power weakened voice of the people.
And In 1830 he signed off on the Indian Removal Act. Which was the act to exchange Native American Land for Land out west. But this act was only stating that they would negotiate with the Native Americans. They could not move them by force or persuasion. But Andrew Jackson and his government did not listen to these rules and frequently bypassed the law by forcing Native Americans to move from the land the Native Americans had lived on long before the Americans.
Andrew Jackson was one of the greatest presidents who made very difficult decisions for our country. Although his choices were not always the popular decision, he made choices that were always promoting democracy. The things that make a good democracy are: giving people a say in government, having a good leader that you can trust to make wise decisions, peace and stability between each country and other states, and having equal power in the government (checks and balances). Andrew Jackson came into office with a popular vote and great support. His supporters viewed him as a man of the people.
Although Jackson was important, he was part of many terrible things. Around the 1820s there were many major indian tribes in eastern United States such as Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole. This soon came to a change. Andrew Jackson thought these Indians were in the way of eastern development, using the Indian Removal Act which the congress had approved he decided to kick them out and send them west. In 1831 the Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee Indians had the right to self government and the United States could not interfere with that.
The time has come to make a judgement of the great Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States from 1829~1837. Although some people didn’t like Jackson very well due to very few of his decisions, he made many good decisions during his presidency. Andrew Jackson should be remembered as a hero of the common man due to his unifying leadership, generous approach of governing, and concern for economic equality. The first reason that Andrew Jackson should be remembered as a hero is because of his unifying leadership.
Jackson by becoming President of the United States during the election of 1828 brought a big change the great nation, giving the common man more power to stand up and choose the leader of the country, at least more than the Founding Fathers intended. The Jacksonian era, a democratic era, is a big event that shaped America as it marked the end of National Republicans in 1832 who then formed the Whig party. President Jackson, being the most popular candidate, was the first President to actually think of himself as the head of democracy and the one who answered the “common man's” will. Another thing that Old Hickory Jackson is famous for is his war against Nicholas Biddle and the national banking system. The president triumphed in this war with the veto of a congressional act aiming to extend the bank's charter and by pulling capital out of the bank to redistribute to the states.
The early 1820’s was a time of conflict between two established parties: the National Republicans and Democratic Republicans. John Quincy Adams won the election of 1824, with Henry Clay as his Secretary of State. However, the following presidential elections were won by Andrew Jackson and soon public officials are replaced with Jacksonian Democrats. Although majority of Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as champion for the “Common People”, Jackson only protected the rights of white common men and their equality of economic opportunity, while failing to protect the individual liberty of minorities, even oppressing them. President Jackson fought to protect equality of economic opportunity by preventing the wealthy to have full control of