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Andrew Jackson's popularity in the Democratic Party, both in the South, and West was due to his success as a general in the War of 1812 during the battle of New Orleans drove him to run for President in 1824 and 1828. His popularity gained after the “Corrupt Bargain” during the 1824 Presidential election. This election ended in a tie the first time because neither of the candidates got over 40% of the electoral vote. Jackson believed that the second round of electoral votes were rigged because most of the House was Democratic Republican and Henry Clay could sway them into voting for John Quincy Adams. John Quincy Adams won the 1824 election. Andrew Jackson’s popularity, saying that he was the “man of the people”, and the mudslinging of John …show more content…

Andrew Jackson was seen as an ineffective president during the early 1800s because of the Trail of Tears (1838-1839), the Nullification Crisis (1832) and The veto of the National Bank (1833). The Trail of Tears of 1838 was an unnecessary massacre of the Native American people, because of Jackson's inability to control his troops. The American nation could have benefited from the working with Cherokee Natives, and lived in peace with each other. The goal of the Indian Removal Act was to move Cherokee natives to the west of the Mississippi. This relocation of the Cherokee tribe happened late in the year, it was too cold as stated in this quote, “The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold, and exposure” (Burnett) The objective of this act was not to kill over 4000 of them; the soldiers were not properly trained to keep the Cherokee Natives alive and from dying of hypothermia. This …show more content…

However, Andrew Jackson did not want them to pursue this course of action, leading the country into debt after his presidency. The National Bank is where the Federal government kept the nations money, the negation of this puts the money into state banks jurisdiction making it harder to pool money together to pay off debt, or pay for items the government needed. Jackson believed the National Bank was formed by the Elite to suit their selfish needs. “It raises a cry that liberty is in danger, at the very moment when it puts forth claims to powers heretofore unknown and unheard of …” (Webster). This expresses Webster's worry about the government and the negative effects of the veto of National Bank. Congress then overturned his veto and put the Third National bank into place. This led Jackson to steal all the money from the bank and then put it into the state banks. These series of actions led to the Panic of 1837. They had contracted a debt from this as stated in this quote, “a foreign debt contracted by our citizens estimated in March last at more than $30,000,000” (Independent Treasury Memo). This was the debt from the states, they could not handle the amount of money and lost a good sum of the money they had received from Jackson. The next president Martin Van Buren had trouble paying off the national debt. The state bank process was not effective because state banks may not provide the

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