Andrew Jackson Dbq

Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the United States, known for being a “man of the people.” Many may not have favored him, but the larger majority enjoyed him for what he did for the benefit of the people. The “people” did not include Native Americans, however, and he did nothing other than move them out of their own homes for his and his people’s benefit. He also dealt with plenty of national issues like the Nullification Crisis and the Bank War, mainly because the majority wanted him to.

Jackson considered himself to be a “Man of the People,” and he deserved that name. He dedicated his presidency to benefitting the people rather than the rich. The people loved him for both his ideals and for how they could easily relate to him since he was the first working-class president and he grew up a life of partying as seen in paragraph 1 of page 2. “Jackson has often been regarded as a “man of the people,” since ordinary Americans could relate to him.” He later became a politician after his lawyer and military career,

Other presidents had wanted to move the Native Americans further west so that they could utilize their land, but they never really enforced it, until Andrew Jackson came along. He used the law to get Native Americans to move west from the land they grew up on. The military was even involved in enforcing the removal of the Native Americans in an event known as the Trail of Tears which killed many. Jackson earned the name “sharp knife” for how harshly he treated them and had his people speak out about how horrific it was. This can be observed in paragraphs 10 and 11, “The event was so horrific, a soldier in Georgia who helped in the removal said, “I fought in many wars between the states and have seen many men killed.but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew.” His treatment of Native Americans was terrible and seemed to be very