Analysis Of On Tour With President Andrew Jackson By Fletcher M. Green

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In class, we discussed Andrew Jackson as a former President of the United States. The online journal article, “On Tour with President Andrew Jackson”, by Fletcher M. Green explains the issues Jackson had to deal with. According to Fletcher M. Green, “Emerging as the leader of the new Democratic party, Andrew Jackson was elected President in 1828 and soon became the symbol of American Democracy” (211). The article explains that Jackson's Presidency was checked by four noteworthy issues: The Second Bank of the United States, the Tariff of 1828, the Nullification Crisis, and Indian Removal. Jackson marked more than ninety treaties with Indian tribes and moved all of them west of the Mississippi. The Nullification Crisis emerged after Vice President …show more content…

President Jackson spent a lot of his two terms attempting to devastate the National Bank, which had been sanctioned by Congress in 1816 as a national place for a monetary arrangement. Jackson felt that the bank was uncalled for imposing the business model and that it mishandled or may manhandle its critical power. Jackson put it all on the line to crush the bank, a campaign that just about expense him the administration in 1834 and earned him an official reprimand by the Senate. Regardless, by 1837, he had ended the bank by withdrawing federal deposits from it. For the duration of his life, Jackson was scrutinized for his unfaltering conclusions and despotic way, yet he in any case substantiated himself a sharp and mindful lawmaker. On numerous occasions, he had demonstrated that he would not be harassed, by the Senate or by outside governments. At the point when Jackson supported Martin Van Buren to succeed him as president, Van Buren won overwhelmingly. Jackson eventually resigned to his family ranch in Tennessee where he passed on at age seventy-eight. Overall, this online journal article summarized the issues President Jackson had to deal with well in detail as discussed in …show more content…

According to the newspaper article, “Virginia had sons, great ones too, soldiers, in other States, in the Revolution…” (5). The quote demonstrates how tough Jackson was during the War of 1812. The War of 1812 gave him the national acknowledgment he would later need to win the administration. Subsequent to winning a noteworthy fight in this war, Jackson was elevated to real broad in the United States Army, with summon of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The British were made a beeline for Louisiana in late 1814, and Jackson was restless to retaliate for his Revolutionary War experience. Jackson was named a Major General and sent to New Orleans to set up the city's barriers against a looming British assault. His armed force of Tennessee and Kentucky volunteers vanquished an attacking British power of approximately seven thousand five hundred men and constrained the British to pull back from the district. Jackson's armed force was, for the most part, a cluster of unpracticed volunteers. They were free blacks, Tennessee and Kentucky shooters and Louisiana state army; he even enrolled a few privateers. After the war, Jackson was changed into a national symbol and legend, which would later offer him some assistance with winning the