Andrew Jackson, 17th President of the United States, is known as a man of the people and a champion of mass democracy. A avid frontiersman from Tennessee, he was known as someone who was previously an ordinary person in poverty instead of an aristocrat, giving aspiring politicians from the masses hope of one day making it into the government. Many people say that he was a power-hungry devil, especially because of the things he did outside of office, such as getting in duels, with his use of veto to demolish the National Bank, and with his use of American troops to force the people of South Carolina to pay their tariffs. He may have seemed like he was power-hungry, yet he wanted to be able to be a strong President, doing what he thought was