Jacksonian Era Dbq

One of the ways Andrew Jackson was different than the previous presidents was he connected with the common people. During his second election Jackson won by speaking to the middle-

Many people remember President Jackson as a hero changing ideas and supporting the “common man”. In the early 1800s, Jackson ran for president but lost. He ran again in 1828 and won. He was reelected in 1832 and won by a landslide. Jackson shifted the power from legislative and judicial branches to the executive branch. One way he influenced the shift of power was with the effects of the court case of Worcester vs. Georgia.

Was Andrew Jackson the democratic figure our great nation needed in the mid 1800’s? From 1828 to 1836, Andrew Jackson served as president in the United States of America. During that time, the country was torn in half due to controversies such as the eviction of the national bank, the Indian Removal, and the spoils system. Although some people believed Jackson was fair to the common man, Jackson acted undemocratically during his presidency because he was not fair to everyone and only listened to his supporters.

Similarly, the Jacksonian age affected the economy both in accordance with the Jacksonian ideal of equal economic opportunity and against it; an executive branch act and a judicial branch decision were made with the intent of favoring the people, but substantial opposition highlighted the negative side effects that undermined the Jacksonian goal. President Jackson represented the executive branch with his bold move of vetoing a bill which proposed a rechartering of the Second Bank of the United States.

Unlike previous presidents, Andrew Jackson represented the common men. He and his followers did not support the aristocrats, but instead favored the interests of farmers and urban workers. When they gained power, the Jacksonian Democrats brought about great advances in creating a more democratic and economically equal society.

There are many different views of Jacksonian's being guardians of individual liberties. Andrew Jackson gave white males a much greater opportunity for expansion. Jackson was a true believer of Western expansion, and Indian removal, something that would get him much criticism from historians today. He believed that both were a necessity for white expansion and American prosperity. Jackson still did not try to help women, Indians, or African Americans, both slave and free to have any actual rights. Even so you can still make the argument that he was still a guardian of individual liberties, since they rarely had any rights previously as it was. He was a keeper of liberties to those white males who were the only ones allowed specialized liberties.

Moreover, Andrew Jackson greatly facilitated the transfer of power from “the few” to “the many” in the US. In Jackson’s Bank Veto Message to Congress in July of 1832, he stated that the rich were monopolizing the country’s domestic exchange by “bending the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” (Document 4). Jackson argued that with so much money and power, the corrupt rich were influencing the government to allow them domination over the many people who could not match their authority. The few, selfish rich citizens felt no duty or responsibility to their country so they committed great evils to promote their own status. For this reason, Jackson wanted the Bank of the United States vetoed so that this corruption could be ended at once and the rich would not be able to use the Bank for their egotistic intents. The BUS had been standing since Alexander Hamilton proposed it in the early 1800s, so it was outlandish for Jackson to propose its veto, but he was truly doing it for the people. The following day after Jackson’s message, Daniel Webster issued a reply to it. In his reply, Webster claimed that Jackson was controlling the poor and arousing them against the rich (Document 5). While this does seem like an immoral action for one to

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

In addition to creating a more democratic country, Jackson also tried to establish equal economic opportunity for the people of America. The best example of this is the vetoing of the charter of the Bank of the United States. The bank was a huge monopoly. It was ran by aristocrats, most of which were from England. Nicholas Biddle, who was the president of the bank, often used funds from the bank to lend money to the members of Congress, thus wining their support.

Andrew Jackson, whose presidential term lasted from 1829-1837, was the first president to ever be chosen by the people to lead. Because he was not born into a rich family, people felt that they could relate to him better. He too preferred supporting the common public over the wealthy aristocrats. During Jackson’s period in office he was able to shift the majority of power in the United States to farmers and small businesses in the western part of the country. Jackson vetoed many bills in order to benefit common people and also created the spoils system to balance out his cabinet. Like Jefferson, Jackson was extremely opposed to the Bank of the U.S., believing that it would only make the wealthy even

Jackson resented banks because he was a man who came from a family of poor farmers who paid with goods and crops. He saw banks as only useful to the wealthy, so when Henry Clay proposed “The Bank Bill”, which was in favor of the recharter, Jackson vetoed it. Andrew Jackson only thought about himself, and people who were like him, poor farmers. In total, vetoed twelve bills during his presidency, which was more than all of the preceding presidents combined. Again, Jackson set his mind to do something, and it was done.

The validity of President Andrew Jackson’s response to the Bank War issue has been contradicted by many, but his reasoning was supported by fact and inevitably beneficial to the country. Jackson’s primary involvement with the Second Bank of the United States arose during the suggested governmental re-chartering of the institution. It was during this period that the necessity and value of the Bank’s services were questioned.

In America’s earliest politics, there had always been two main groups, the Federalist and Anti-Federalists. In what is known as the Jacksonian era our political structure was adapting (Document 6), which made space for a totally new system. Both of those groups represented very different ideals and that’s why they were prominent for so long, any goals set forth by one party the other often opposed. Andrew Jackson’s most impactful contribution to politics would be awakening the common man to politics. Separation of the rich from the poor was becoming a big issue (Document 1) because as it’s been shown, only money can get recognition.

America to foreigners seemed an utopia of political democracy and economic opportunity, in “the absence of poverty, of gross ignorance… every man in the towns an independent citizen; every man in the country a landowner” (Document 4); however, that did not meant every man in every town was guarded by democratic ideals. Jackson’s address of the gruesome Indian removal, which he claims to be done only in beneficial for the tribes, translated into a complete disregard for the individual liberties of the Natives. “Trail of Tears”, a harsh and tragic removal of Cherokee people meant a migration to poorly conditioned reservations in which thousands of innocent people died (Document 7). Minorities such as the thousands of Cherokees that partook in the journey were severely mistreated by the policy that slaughtered the lives of thousands of innocent people, thanks to the address sent by

Andrew Jackson rejected the renewal of the bank charter because Andrew Jackson believed that the bank was corrupt and was harmful to the common people as shown when he stated in his bank veto message that, “the present Bank of the United States… enjoys an exclusive privilege of banking… almost a monopoly of the foreign and domestic exchange.” Andrew Jackson is showcasing his disgust for the Second National Bank as he is implying that the bank is a corrupt system which only help the rich and the bank itself while hurting the common folk. Andrew Jackson further showcases this mentality by writing that, “ it is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” Andrew Jackson is saying to Congress that he views the Second National Bank of the U.S. as corrupt. Furthermore, Andrew Jackson believed he was protecting the common people from a corrupt enterprise by rejecting the charter of the Second National Bank of the U.S. as he believed that multiple state banks would be much more helpful to the common people. Andrew Jackson is also suggesting that his idea for the pet banks, however misguided it may have been, was for the good of the common