Andrew Jackson Dbq

I believe that Andrew Jackson shouldn’t be considered “a man of the people” because he didn’t really care for the regular folks. The evidence I have to prove my claim is that in the Article “Andrew Jackson: A man of the people” it says that “Often, his decisions create a stir.” (paragraph 7). This piece of evidence shows that often Jackson’s decision would create disagreements, which is an issue. Furthermore, another piece of evidence that supports my claim is that in the same article “Andrew Jackson: A man of people” it states that,”Jackson also replaced the government officials with his supporters, a practice that became known as the spoil system.”(paragraph 6). This piece of evidence shows Jackson took people's jobs and replaced them with

In addition, the last reason is that it was said that Jackson had a bad temper and was a troublemaker when he was a teen and during early adulthood. With Jackon creating disagreements with his decisions, acting the spoil system which was corrupt and kicking out people from their jobs, and having a bad temper and being troubled he doesn’t seem to care for the people and doesn’t deserve to be considered as “A Man of People”.

Andrew Jackson treated the Native Americans horrible, which isn’t something “A man of the People” should have done. In the article “Jackson Treatment of Native People” it states, “In 1818, Jackson further persecuted native people when he led a war against the Seminole tribe for harboring enslaved people who had

In addition, the reason why is because in the article “Jackson Handling of the Nullification Crisis” it states, “He encouraged Congress to pass the Force Bill.This new legislation gave Jackson authority to use the military.to enforce the tariff law in the South.”(paragraph 6). This piece of evidence shows that Jackson was ready to go into Civil War with the South to enforce a law, which I think is not okay because this could’ve ended with a eradication of the United States. Jackson shouldn’t have passed that law because it made it seem like we were ready to go to war, and as a result this led me to believe that he didn’t handle this crisis well, even though he ended it with a compromise and nobody got hurt. Then with Jackson handling the Bank War, it ended with him ending the whole bank. In the article “Jackson and His War with the National Bank” it states that,”He announced a plan to remove all federal funds from the bank and redistribute the money to various states banks, thereby starving the bank to death.On September 10, 1833, the national bank was out of business; the bank was officially over.”(paragraph 6). As previously mentioned in this piece of evidence, Jackson had done his plan to remove federal funds from the banks and give it to many different state banks, which led to the bank running out of business and ending the bank war. Jackson should’ve handled the bank war differently because