The Terrible Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 and served until 1836. In the 1828 election Jackson was appealing to the public because he seemed to be on their level. He had grown up in a log cabin on the South Carolina frontier. He later became a successful lawyer, land speculator, and planter. He was a hard worker and people liked that about him. Jackson was also liked by the people of the United States because he was a war hero. He won the final battle of the War of 1812 at New Orleans and also fought and defeated the Creeks and Seminoles in a series of Indian Wars. Jackson's goal of the election of 1828 was to become a common man and win the vote of the farmers and laborers. He may have been a common man and won the election of 1828, but as president I feel he did a poor job and that many of his decisions were single minded, selfish,
Witt 2Jackson abused his power as president while he was in office. Prices of everything went down due to the inflation thus causing the Untied States' economy to be threatened. He also was in favor of rotation of office. Along with the economy's plunge factories closed and people were left jobless and hungry. He was not worried about the country, but instead was worried about himself. In this case the Supreme Court ordered something and Jackson deliberately ignored John Marshall and said, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" (Boyer,244). Finally in 1840 Jackson and Van Buren's reign had ended and Harrison had moved into office to try to dig the country out of the whole Jackson had dug the country into. He was a against a national bank and formed his own pet banks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**Witt3Works CitedBoyer, Paul. Jackson had also extended the voting rights to all white men, not just wealthy white land owners. He believed that people often became board with their jobs and unfaithful to the government. Georgia John Marshall made the decision to allow the Cherokee Indians to stay in Georgia. Jackson ignored the Supreme Court ruling and three years later the Indians were forced to sign a treaty and relocate in Oklahoma. This was the practice of giving government jobs to his political backers and friends.
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