Andrew Jackson Dbq

Andrew Jackson – An Unstoppable Man Jackson’s administration was marked by his character of an unstoppable man, which was known “the Age of Jackson”. Understanding the power of the presidency that could exert among the nation, he achieved his goals by using all the resources as a president could exert. Jackson with no connection or blood with the founding father push the presidency to be the center of the government, which was his ideals, also impel the Congress to exercise power to achieve his goals. Supporters and opponents saw him as a clever and evil at the same time. The most important achievement of his administration was the Indian Removal Act passed by the Congress 1830, which the legislation caused many controversies in the nation.

If the Indians refuse to move, they would stay under the Georgia law, “laws that said Indians could not vote, own property, testify against a white person in court, or obtain credit.” (Fraser 275). It meant that the Indians had no choice, either way they would lost their land. Moreover, Jackson had a different thought about civilizing Indians into the American civilization, as the Forefathers. Against this idea, he only had his eyes in the territory of the Cherokee and other tribes, in Jackson message to the Congress about the Indian removal, he wrote “The condition and ulterior destiny of the Indian tribes within the limits of some of our Sates have become objects of much interest and importance.” (277). The Indian Removal Act was to fund

The real intentions behind the Indian removal were due to the Indians territory was known as a black belt, a favorable soil and climate, which the American prosperity and economy were relying in the commercialization and textile industrialization of cotton. (270). All in all, Jackson’s administration had the intention in expand the territory by forcing the “Five Civilized Tribes” to increase the cotton commercialization and textile industrialization in favor of the American economy. On the other hand, many white settlers from the North and the leaders of the “Five Civilized Tribes” oppose the Indian Removal Act, fearing what they would found in the new land to survive. The Indian removal caused a major fight in the Congress, “the removal bill passed the Senate 28 to 19, but passed by the House by only a 102-98 vote.”; one of the opponent the Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee call the bill “oppression and vengeance”. (Fraser 276). It meant that how Jackson’s act was not accepted by the Congress. Moreover, when the Cherokees claimed their lands in the U.S. courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, under the Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the Cherokees could not be