How Did Andrew Jackson Corrupt

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Andrew Jackson was a horrible person that somehow slipped into the position of President of the United States. Andrew Jackson was so controversial because he would do things for the country like getting more land available to the settlers but in order to do all of that he needed to commit mass genocide of the Native Americans and lie to other government officials to get his way. Andrew Jackson did many villainous things while he was in the position as president and all these acts can show you that he was a monster that only became president to get what he wants and do what he wants. The most evil thing that Andrew Jackson ever did was the Trail of Tears, an event where the removal of the Native Americans across the already established United States forced them to …show more content…

He used the banks to fulfill his own twisted ideals and didn’t care what the people would say about it and in the end caused the “Bank War”. Jackson, known as stubborn and crude but a man of the common people, demanded an examination into the bank’s management and political agenda as quickly as he was or become prepared to the White House in March 1829. To Jackson, the bank symbolized how an upper class of businessmen exploited the will of the common people of America. He expressed that he planned to challenge the legitimacy of the bank, much to the dread of its followers. In return, the director of the bank, Nicholas Biddle, flexed welcome own governmental capacity, curving to representatives of Congress, including the strong Kentucky Senator Henry Clay and chief businessmen responsive to the bank, to be in a dispute or fight Jackson.On September 10, 1833, Jackson detached all federal finances from the Second Bank of the U.S., redistributing them to individual state banks; its charter properly expired in

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