Andrew Jackson Dbq

Jackson was known for being a military hero and he was renowned Indian fighter. In the fall of 1813, Jackson and his troops left to fight in the Creek War. The war started because a Shawnee leader named Tecumseh was trying to defend tribal lands and traditions. Jackson defeated the Creeks at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 and forced the Creeks to sign a treaty that stated that half of their territory belonged to the U.S. A couple years later, a group of Seminole and Creek Indians refused the U.S. claims to their land and invaded the U.S. from Spanish Florida. As the Indians, advanced, they attacked settlers and so Jackson was called back in to serve. Jackson spent 1817-1818 pushing Indians back into Florida. In an unauthorized invasion,

Andrew Jackson was elected president in 1828 and he represented and was the Leader of the Democratic party. He was known as the “people’s president” for making decisions that he thought would benefit the “common man”. He was also the first president who was elected with the electoral college being made up of people chosen by United States voters, and not representatives. Andrew Jackson was a man of the common people, so he held common beliefs, like the belief that Native Americans had no right to land ownership. The common men wanted more land to cultivate cotton and during this time, White people thought that they were entitled to whatever they wanted because they were the superior race. The land the people wanted was occupied and owned by Native American tribes. This prompted Jackson to pass the Indian Removal Act in 1830. This law allowed him to remove Native American tribes from their land and move them to “Indian Territory.” The topic of removal was not new to Jackson. He has been in campaigns against the Creeks and the Seminoles before. These campaigns resulted in the transfer of thousands of acres of land from the Natives to white