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    Andrew Jackson, one of the many great presidents the United States has had. He is on the front of the twenty dollar bill so if must big important for some reason right? Jackson took America by surprise and really shook it up in office; he made some major changes like no more corruption, fixing the budget, and taking the national banks power away. This paper will go more in debt with these topics and the effects that they had on the nation and the presidency. Corruption happened in almost every government

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    opposition to President Andrew Jackson’s decisions, and Jackson lost his popularity. So, because of Andrew Jackson’s ignorance of events that transpired over the course of American history, he lost the presidency. If Andrew Jackson would have made better choices concerning Native Americans affairs and learned from the past, his popularity may have grown. This applies to me because if I don’t want to suffer major losses, like Andrew Jackson, learning from my own mistakes and the mistakes of my peers

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    Andrew Jackson’s Presidency As president of the United States, Andrew Jackson embodied democratic ideals and worked to benefit Americans of lower or middle class, known as the “common man”, which excluded Indians and African Americans. He believed states should hold power over federal and saw the national bank as “nonproducers” that damaged the economy. While seen as the defender of the “common man”, Andrew Jackson’s presidency shifted between conflicting ideologies, overlooking social and economic

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    Andrew Jackson changed how the people of his time viewed politics. When Jackson was elected in 1828, he saw himself as someone who represented the common man. He owned a farm, but not a huge plantation, and he had no formal education or a college degree. As a result of Jackson being elected as president, politics became very popular in the middle and lower classes. Jacksonian Democracy was the emergence of popular politics and showed that the government was no longer just for the wealthy elite. Jacksonian

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    The debate on whether President Andrew Jackson was a “hero or villain” has remained through many years. It can be easily said that he was a hero, considering all the good he’s done. Though, is that right? Keeping everything in mind and making a tough decision, I say he’s a villain. He moved people (Native Americans) from their homelands for his and his peoples’ benefit, he spoiled those who made him president (not worrying about others who were fit for government jobs), and forced people to follow

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    Andrew Jackson’s path to presidency was unique. In the election of 1824, there were four main candidates, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. Jackson gained the most popular votes of the four Democratic-Republican candidates, but not the majority of electoral votes to win the election. Henry Clay, who was eliminated from the election, held a decisive position as the speaker of the House of Representatives. Clay was in a position to throw the election to the candidate

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    Andrew Jackson was an American hero. He helped fight in wars, such as the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and many people liked him because he helped average americans. Jackson was a slave owner and did not believe that blacks had rights. He also took away rights of Native Americans. I do not think that Jackson should be on the twenty-dollar bill for several reasons. I don't think that Jackson should be on the twenty-dollar bill because he was unjust

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    blunders. Andrew Jackson, who was in office from 1829-1837, was a president of many firsts as he was the first frontier president, first to have a “kitchen cabinet”, and first to use a pocket veto. Jackson was later succeeded by his vice president, Martin Van Buren. Van Buren, who was in office from 1837-1841, was known for his shrewd political skills. Both these men laid down the foundations for a stronger, more centralized national government with methods that garnered mixed responses. Andrew

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    a nationalist regiment and passed on at Stono Ferry, clearly from heatstroke. Andrew and his sibling Robert battled with American irregulars. In 1781, they were caught and contracted smallpox, of which Robert died not long after their discharge. While attempting to recover a few nephews from a British ship, Andrew's mom likewise fell sick and passed on. A vagrant and a solidified veteran at fifteen years old, Jackson floated, taught school a bit, and after that read law in North Carolina. He fabricated

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    Andrew Jackson was president during a time when the nation was becoming more democratic, at least when it came to white males. Jackson is often regarded as a president that led the way to more democracy among the American people, but in some ways Jackson did not promote true and equal democracy among all members of society. Jacksonian democracy did not mean more rights for women or the abolition of slavery. What it did mean was that the Native Americans were treated with disrespect by many whites

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