Jacksonian Dbq

There are many who are against Andrew Jackson because he is a hypocrite. An example of this is how Jackson states he is against slavery but still owned slaves. One has to understand that America was founded on hypocrisy. Essentially what Jackson is trying to do is to make compromises on situations so he can support both sides of an argument to represent as many people as possible.

Jackson was re-elected with an overwhelming majority in 1832. He now pursued the policy of removing Native Americans from good farming land. He also refused to accept the decision of the Supreme Court to invalidate Georgia's plan to add the territory of the Cherokee.

With the dissipating property qualifications, Jackson did little to help others who needed rights for which the Constitution was created. “We hold these truths self evident that all men are created equal” (Doc. A). Yes, it does say all men, but Jackson did nothing to help men who needed it the most. He did not help men such as blacks and native americans and did nothing about women's rights. During his presidency, women were petitioning for rights and jobs besides factory workers, stay at home mothers, and school teachers and yet he did nothing about it. Also, he did not help workers who wanted labor unions. Instead, he stated that the employer has full control over them and that it was illegal to form labor unions. Then there is the slavery issue which no president had yet

Even though Jackson was very successful during his presidency, there were some events in history that really showed his “weaknesses”. Jackson was classified as a lunatic. He was feared by many, especially his opponents. Due to his temper and poor decisions, Jackson did not mind to go to war for what he believed in or did not care to remove anyone against him. He was a real savage, and I feel the country at this time of period needed this type of mentality in the presidency. A negative event that took place during his term was the Trail of Tears, which was the forced removal of Native Americans from their homeland, resulting in the death of thousands of people. He also promoted slavery and he himself owned many and showed cruelty towards them. Andrew Jackson was stubborn and only cared about himself, but I do believe he

By the time Jackson came to power, the nation had been drastically changed by the Industrial Revolution. The simple, pastoral, agricultural lifestyle was being replaced

Although the “Age of Jackson” wasn’t a time era, which brought forth a great political, social, or economic freedom and equality to the U.S., it did in fact put our country through a metamorphosis in our political lives of the nation. The start of a new presidency (Jackson’s presidency) was accompanied by huge numbers of Hickoryites (Jacksonian supporters) and official hopefuls. Many of these hopefuls were granted their desire of holding office, which is one of the changes brought into Washington by Andrew Jackson.

The second incident where Jackson stood by his solicitude for state rights was in the removal of the Indian tribes. Jackson has been associated mainly with his decision to support Georgia in its efforts to remove the Cherokee from their land, despite a Supreme Court ruling against the state. However his enthusiastic support for Indian removal was "undoubtedly one of the reasons he swept the southern states in the 1828 election" . Jackson had Native Indian policy on his mind from the beginning as he saw that Indians were subject to American sovereignty and that national security demanded they be removed. Removal to the West would increase the security of the US from outside attacks. Upon

In the mid-1800s, democracy, an idea where the branches of government follow the wishes of the People, was being spread in America. The 7th president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, did not positively contribute to the spread of democracy. He was a strong, self-made man, but struggled to turn America in the democracy he was determined to make. Andrew Jackson’s presidency, from 1828-1836, titled Jackson as not primarily democratic because of his veto of the National Bank and his abuse of the Spoils System; however implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 proposed that Jackson was not completely undemocratic.

Jacksonian Democracy is often criticized by its thinking toward the classes in the United States. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. states, “The Jacksonian revolution rested on premises which the struggles of the thirties hammered together into a kind of social philosophy. The outline of this way of thinking about society was clear… The Jacksonians believed that there was a deep rooted conflict in society between the producing and non-producing classes-the farmers and laborers on the one hand, and the business community on the other” (Schlesinger Jr. 693). This is what Andrew Jackson and the party was trying to curtail.

The Age of Jackson was a period in American history filled with contradictions, especially regarding democracy. Although there was a vast period that saw an exponential increase in voter participation, nominating committees replaced caucuses, and electors began to be popularly elected. These changes were only observed in a small portion of the American society; White, Anglo-Saxon males. Meaning that despite White, Anglo-Saxon males gaining a significant amount of liberty and equality other minorities such as Indians, women, and immigrants received no such thing. Additionally as result of such high demands for cotton there was a rise in slave populations who lacked equality. Moreover, there was an imbalance of wealth throughout the American society. These contradictions represent America thought however, Jacksonian democrats viewed themselves as guardians of the Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of opportunity. Therefore the question arises how was it that Jacksonian democrats viewed themselves as successful guardians of the nation yet such

Both thought of Natives as wards of the state that could be controlled by the government, but had very different ideas on what to do with them. For Jackson, this culminated in the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Though Jackson saw Natives as people, he did not see them as equal to whites, once again showing his conservative Southern ways. To expand the territory of the US, Jackson ordered the four remaining southern tribes to assimilate or move farther westward. His conviction that the Native Americans must be moved drove him to negotiate the terms of the Indian Removal Act himself, the only act Jackson himself pushed for in his eight year presidency. The Cherokees were the only tribe to refuse to go, and gained judiciary backing from the Supreme Court after presenting the cases Cherokee Nation v. Georgia in 1831 and Worcester v. Georgia in 1832. Jackson’s immense support for the Native migration, despite the established unconstitutionality of it, manifested as advising Georgia to slowly move onto Cherokee territory, all the while secretly negotiating a treaty with rebels in the tribe. Jackson’s intense desire to preserve his own ideals of white supremacy and Manifest Destiny, even if it meant ignoring the rights of an entire race, exemplified his conservative nature, can be seen most clearly in his intentional

Before his era, not only were white male landowners the only ones allowed to vote, but they also didn’t feel like their voice was being heard. “Voter Participation in Presidential Elections 1824-1848...1824: 24%, 1828: 58%, 1832: 55%, 1836: 58%” (D5). Voter turnout during the Jacksonian Period was greater than before. In the election of 1824, before Jackson was elected, turnout was very low. In contrast, when Jackson was elected, voter turnout was much higher. “Laws undertake...to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society-the farmers, mechanics, and laborers-who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government” (D2). Jackson realized that many laws created previously were only to increase the wealth of people in power. Knowing this, he sought to change this and help the commoners, expanding the middle

Andrew Jackson advocated the Indian Removal of 1830 to expand the United States but this forced the Indians to relocate further west. For many years the Cherokee had endured and adapted to the numerous changes Americans made in their pursuit to expand their land across North America, such as the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which pushed Indians further west. When Georgians discovered the presence of gold on Cherokee territory in west Georgia, they wanted the removal of the Cherokee to mine the gold. The Georgians failed their first attempt at removing the Cherokee by trying to strip away their constitution and rights. In response, the Cherokee decided to take advantage of America’s federal court by suing them in two cases- Cherokee v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia. As a result, the Supreme Court declared that the

Indian Removal Act. After wanting to remove the Native Americans using political and military action from the southern states in 1829, President Andrew Jackson sign the Indian removal act into law on May 28, 1830. It only gave the right to talk about their removal and that relocation is supposed to be voluntary. Eventually all the tribe leaders agreed after Jackson’s victory in

First- President Andrew Jackson announced his Indian Removal Act proposal in an address to the U.S. Congress. In 1830 the Removal Act was passed which authorized the president to great the Indians unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River. The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall addressed the Indian lands question in two cases: Cherokee Nation vs Georgia in 1831 and Worcester vs Georgia in 1832.