Mr. Jackson's Argumentative Analysis

This quote by Jackson underlies the fact the he was a selfish, tyrannical ruler. He did not make decisions based on the interests of the whole nation but on his own personal benefit, in search of self- achievement. Although he was portrayed or possibly manipulated the citizens to believe that he was a president for the common man, that was simply not the way he acted. As president, he purposely ignored the power of the Judicial branch to judge laws, and strengthened the power of the Executive branch above the limits in the Constitution. He was also said to be rude and uneducated, which

Andrew Jackson, The United States seventh president, was possibly one of the worst human beings to be president and treated the Native Indians horribly. He, was a bully and used his position to get acts and petitions like the Indian Removal Act passed, to help push Native Indians around so he could get his own way. The Indian Removal Act in and of itself seemingly doesn’t contain that much power, however it was all the power Jackson needed. The circumstances of Jackson’s character and the debates surrounding the Act also lend and interesting lens to examine what Jackson intentions were. When looking at Jackson and how he managed to relocate the Native it becomes substantially more integral to examine all the documents with a wide scope to see how he even managed the relocation of Natives.

Jackson’s main goal as president was to rid the country of aristocracy, by giving more power to the lower class, and less to the wealthy, creating a plane of equal economic opportunity. Attempt to reduce the influence of the rich can be seen in document B, when Jackson vetoes a charter to the Bank of the United States (Doc.

Through this speech, my client acknowledges the adversities of which the Cherokees must have experienced in response to the Removal. Since the Cherokee's lost their so called "homes", they lost familiarity. However, Mr. Jackson shared an anecdote that our friends are not alone in these emotions. Ancestors of American citizens were once in a state of fear of what is yet to come in the 'New World.' The Indians were given a new home not a whole 'New World.' With the Removal Act, Indians where given a fresh start with the addition of larger land for them to be able to grow and develop without inferring with the United States's

The way that the situation is described in the two readings is very different. In Jackson’s “On Indian Removal”, he says, “These remove hundreds and almost thousands of miles at their own expense, purchase the lands they occupy, and support themselves at their new homes from the moment of their arrival….. How many thousands of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the West on such conditions!”. Here he is saying that Indian Removal is an opportunity for the Indians to purchase new land and start a new life somewhere else and the

It is true, Andrew Jackson has been quoted saying “My only two regrets in life, are that I did not hang Calhoun and shoot Clay.” In my personal conviction I believe that he did not say this out of an anger, but as an explanation for his personal conflicts with Calhoun and Clay. I can see how people assumed he was angry when he said this. Andrew Jackson had a reason to hate Calhoun, since Calhoun called Andrew's wife a whore, and caused his family lots of problems. I think Jackson’s anger towards Clay started in 1819, when Clay castigated Jackson for his unauthorized invasion of west Florida. Clay was also a big part of John Quincy Adams’s winning of the presidency. Andrew Jackson, even though he had slaves agreed

The presidency of Andrew Jackson was marked by extreme government reforms which resulted in the birth of our modern democracy, but the darkest part of Jackson’s presidency was his policy with the Native American Indians. The relationship between the United States government and the Native Americans had long been considered unstable (Marsico 6). With the arrival of European settlers at Jamestown in 1607 two radically different cultures clashed. The meeting of these two worlds was often benign but other encounters proved hostile. The enticement of the new found world and the idea of a new start were powerful incentives for European settlers to flood into America. Indians roamed the land but the European influx brought diseases to which the natives had no immunity, the native populations were severely affected. As more immigrants arrived, the land sacred to the Native Americans was being taken by white settlers, the Indians couldn’t compete with the white man’s population and technology. From 1721 to 1819, more than 90 percent of Indian land had been surrendered, including Cherokee lands (What). With the European belief of superiority the Indians seemed like a far less advanced culture and a people easily conquered. As the white man overpowered various

Jackson was a protector of democracy for "Equal protection and equal benefits" for all men. He wanted to be rid of any organization or institution promoting specific privilege to anyone.

Similar to African Americans and women in 1800’s (and arguably now), these Amerindians were minorities that arguably possessed no value nor contribution the cultivation of the United States. Ideas initially encouraged by Christopher Columbus, where he refers to Native Americans as ignorant savage beasts, has been preserved and acknowledged by the Americans where the belief of inferiority resonates with their perspective of the Native Americans. Immoral as this notion sounds, the Americans would then enfranchise to urbanization, industrialization, and acquisition of abundant resources without pondering on the consequences it has on the Native Americans. In 1830, in order to proceed in territorial aggrandizement, newly-inaugurated President Jackson scribed a congressional message promoting the removal of Indians for the vain benefit of the United States. In the intermediary of his message, he states a rhetorical question: What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12 million happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? (Jackson 1) The inclusion of this rhetorical question is to exclude the care for Native Americans as they are perceived as “savages”, and place more stress on the significant

The author believes the Indian New Deal will provide the Indians with new found benefits, many of which had been taken away from them by the government. The greatest benefit that the Indian New Deal would bring is the restoration of land. The Indians have been removed from their homes without a real excuse, and having their land back would be great. The New Deal would also prohibit the selling of land, making “Indian-owned land into tribal or community ownership”. With their land back the Indians would also free themselves from the suppression of their religious and social customs. This would all result in the benefit of self-government for the Indians with federal supervision, and if they prove being capable of self-government it could lead advancements in citizenship and their rights.

Robert V. Remini argues that Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830 was socially motivated by humanitarian impulses, and that Jackson’s actions where driven by the desire to save the culture and populace of the Native

He trusted in social versatility, and despised the human activity of turning over positions of power to specific people of the elite division and also extraordinary benefits due to those claims. Jackson’s perspectives incorporated the way that if the government kept on give more power to the already powerful, those belonging to lower classes would never be granted the opportunity to make their way up the financial classes that existed in America. Since the less compelling populace would not have the capacity to level up to the elites, it would be exceptionally unfair because the higher class would thrive monetarily and the poor would not flourish as much. Jackson longed for a legislature that similarly gave protection to the majority of the individuals in the country, not only the rich class. Through this plea, it can be clearly understood that Jackson did have the common individuals ' best advantage as a main priority, as well as their votes when the election came. Gradually, Jackson would start giving the common individuals more official positions so as to totally use their entitlements to the government.

Despite- the expansion and new innovation, Jefferson sees the Native American as an abstraction of westward migration. (making America 245). For instance, federal government tried to convince the Indian tribes to move farther west and exchange with money, new land, and relief from white harassment. According to Shawnee Chief in “The Age of Jackson”, stated the reason that the Indian had loss their trust with the white people. He claimed that the whites do not want the unify among the Indian and they intend to separate their tribes. Furthermore, he claimed that the lands are never be divided, but to share and no one have a right to sell the lands, “Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well

"It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress . . . the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation” (Jackson, 1830, para.1). With promises of new lands, protection, and monies, President Andrew Jackson portrays the Indian Removal Act of 1830 as beneficial to Indians, wherein governmental financial gain is incidental. However, when considering land transactions and gold discoveries, the true beneficiaries are revealed. While strengthening the States’ white population, wealth, and power, the Indian Removal Act dispels previous treaties that ensure Indian ancestral territorial boundaries; and it ultimately facilitates the forced relocation where thousands die of starvation and exposure.

The Roaring Twenties, as they were known, were a time of scandal and mayhem in America. From the hilariously obeyed Prohibition to the new roles of women, the twenties were the personification of a rebellious teenager. It comes to no surprise then that one of the most infamous authors of the twenties, F. Scott Fitzgerald, wrote mainly one that rebelliousness. In his short story, The Jelly-bean, Fitzgerald describes the life of one of those very teenagers.