Andrew Jackson Dbq

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Andrew Jackson the first President from the western state, he came from a poor family, he was a war hero and a representative of a common man “only white man”. He thought himself after the revolutionary war and he became a frontier attorney in backwoods Tennessee. Andrew Jackson was known as, “a man of the people”, but he promoted slavery and he took lands from Native Americans. Jackson viewed the Native Americans as non-human, barbarians and he decided they needed to be removed from their land for the benefits of settlers. Jackson's Democracy was always cast for the benefit of white men, it didn't even include white women or non-whites. He felt that white men were the only ones that should be able to hold office and have a voice. During

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