Andrew Jackson Good Or Bad

Andrew Jackson was like no other president before him. The previous presidents had one thing in common, they were all part of the founding fathers or in John Quincy Adam’s case was the son of a founding father. However Jackson was a plantation owner from the west who had no connections with the government. He also had different views from other presidents that made his presidency unique. Two things that separated Andrew Jackson’s presidency from previous presidencies were he reached out to the common people and he was disapproving of the Bank of United States.

Andrew Jackson helped to provide for a strong protection of popular democracy and individual liberty to the United States. Andrew Jackson known as the people’s president held a strong emotion in the states right’s which advocated to the increase of executive power. President Andrew Jackson was good for his country, because he provided certain decisions that helped form America into a better place than where it was before. President Andrew Jackson showed significant positives towards the people of the United States. President Andrew Jackson’s creation of the Democratic Party still exists today. His great efforts to eliminate the Bank of the United States helped to pay off all the national debts in America.

He had a lot of jobs in his lifetime. He came from a wealthy family. His father was a successful banker and lawyer in Pittsburgh. He was the fourth out of five. Andrew was an art collector, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, businessman, and an American banker. He made a big business empire before going into politics. He founded the National Gallery of Art.

Andrew Jackson was a bad president partially because he was a slave trader, and his slave trading commission was also documented in the journal of east tennessee and it was known as a troublesome commerce. 1,000 acres of plantation land all for enslaved african american women, men and children. Hard labor was performed to produce the hermitage cash crops which was cotton. Andrew Jackson made a bad decision when he chose to go through with the Indian Act Removal , it caused Native Americans to move from their legal homes which was said to be ethnic cleansing something he was planning and laying groundwork for since the War of 1812. He had moved Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee nations from the southern lands of Oklahoma.

Andrew Jackson is a villain because he hated Indians and he owned slaves and he always showed disagreement to the other people running for president. Andrew Jackson being himself did not like Indians, he started the Indian Removal Act so he could remove the Indians and take their land and cause many of them to die. and he wanted them to be like us, but when they were like us we didn’t want them to.

Andrew Jackson was a very controversial President, and had a large impact on our country which shaped it to what it is today. He was loved by many Americans, yet some despised him and his ideas, which was largely due to their race or belief. Despite the hatred that Jackson received, he should be recognized for the enormous impacts he made for our country in its early years.

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

In his annual message delivered in 1830 to the Congress, Andrew Jackson says that the government is willing to give the Indians new home far away from the „settled, civilized, christian people” just because he thinks they are savages and cannot live next to normal people, and even further, he wants them to be grateful about it. He says they should be happy that he removes them from places where their ancestors lived and died. Jackson names it a kind, generous gesture and persuades people that this is the only solution, that Indians cannot live among other people because they are too wild, too little civilized and have to live away from civilization.

Andrew Jackson was a soldier, a lawyer, a husband, an orphan, and in his most famous status, the 7th President of the United States. Andrew Jackson was loved by the people, and hated by his political rivals. He pushed the limits of his power as the president, and at the same time restricted it, as to not overstep his place as the voice of the people. Through his terms as president he used his power to protect the rights of the people and to ensure that the United States would prosper. In the following paragraphs his contributions are highlighted and will show just what he did for America and its prosperity.

Andrew Jackson, born on March 15,1767 was the 7th president of the United States, who was a self made man, rising to money and power. He is viewed as a controversial historical figure in American history between being a hero or villain. Andrew Jackson is a villain due to his controversial decisions during his presidency, such as the spoils system, the nullification crisis, the Second Bank of the United States, and lastly the most impactful decision, the Indian Removal Policy. Jackson may have been seen as the common man leader,and did many things to benefit the people, but that can not justify his unacceptable actions.

     Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina on December 29th, 1808. At the young age of three years old, Andrew’s father. Jacob Johnson passed away while drowning in an attempt to save the life of Editor Henderson from the Raleigh Gazette in 1812. Andrew’s mother, Mary Johnson, worked hard as a seamstress and washerwoman in order to support Andrew and his three brothers, and her; but she was unable to afford to send them to school. From the age of 14 until 16 he worked as an apprentice to a tailor but talked to his mother and stepfather about moving and starting a new life. He then opened a tailor shop in Greenville, Tennessee, married Eliza McCardle on May 17, 1827 and

He was raised by his mother in which was a widower. She raised him on a settlement near the North and South Carolina border. He had a large family of Irish immigrant farmers. His mother wanted him to become a minister but he went in a completely different direction at a young age. Young Andrew began to cuss, fight, and even pull pranks on different people in the town.

During his presidency he faced numerous issues affecting the nation at the time. His reactions to the issues were often enacted with good intentions but horrible results. Or more often, his reactions were often of "fix it and forget it". His heavy handed Indian removal policy was quickly enacted without the initial cooperation of tribal officers. The removal policy was also one of submission rather than cooperation. To date, his administration is the only one to have paid off the national debt. However, this only lasted one year and was followed by a four year long depression. Another important reaction was the "nullification crisis" or the "succession crisis". Due to the "Tariff of Abominations" the southern states felt as though they were being punished by the taxes and the northern states rewarded. President Jackson threatened military action to enforce the law, which may be considered as one of the initial roots of the coming civil war.

Andrew Jackson was, and still is a beloved president to many people. The common person might look at our seventh president as a true war hero, when in fact Andrew Jackson was like a tyrant in many ways. He was the reason for about 7,000 Cherokees deaths, and violated many laws. The only reason Andrew Jackson was not impeached was because the senate did not provide a two thirds vote.

Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States was he a hero or a villain? While there were some questionable choices Jackson made in his life. There are many reasons people consider Andrew Jackson a hero. The first and foremost reason is his military service to the country. Andrew Jackson’s actions would also lead to the expansion of the United States into Florida. Andrew Jackson as the president was known as the president of the “Common Man” and he lowered the national debt to a record low. Andrew Jackson was an honest man stood up for his beliefs of what was right that is what makes him a hero.