Andrew Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was not the mirror image of the early frontier president, Andrew Jackson. The only way to thoroughly answer that question is to look back to the very beginning of life, or their childhood. One must also evaluate their actual problems and issues that went on during their presidencies; however most importantly, how they reacted to the situation they were elected into. In order to begin answering the question, we have to start at the beginning. Their childhoods. Andrew Jackson the 7th president and Franklin Roosevelt the 32nd president couldn't have come from more different worlds. Andrew Jackson was born to two penniless immigrants, who had come over from Ireland. Unfortunately Andrew's father died before he got to see his third son born.1 Throughout the families hardship they somehow found the means to send Andrew to school. Andrew learned to read which was very rare, in the 1770.2 The Revolutionary War started soon after he was born. At the age of 13 Jackson joined a regiment. He and his brother, were eventually captured by the British and imprisoned together. Hearing her two children were being held by British soldiers, Jackson's mother went somehow managed to get the boys released; however hi
the decisions that Jackson made about the country, really show his individualism, and aggressive personality. He indicates that he would take their non action as an act of treason. s older brother died on the long trip home. His childhood was spent near Hyde Park, about fifty miles north of New York City, on a large estate and farm with hundreds of workers tending to the needs of the family. " 11 Where ever the problems of the country are when the president enters that office, they then become that new presidents problem. So while their situations and time differences made them different presidents, they both attacked their countries problems head on. In all honesty to handle a time like the great depression, and to have the American public vote you into office four consecutive times. In fact, Franklin was basically born into a family that in America, would be considered royalty. He was a president that represented the common man. This was later referred to as the "Trail of Tears". 13 These two presidents were both very successful. Jackson used the Army, beginning in 1831 and culminating in 1837, to push almost all of the Indians in Georgia westward to Indian Territory. Jackson was viewed by the world as a wild, almost barbaric man. Andrew was sent to live with relatives, due to the terrible deaths of all his immediate family members. Roosevelt was seen in a different light before his presidency began.
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