Andrew Jackson Dbq Essay

Andrew Jackson was a democrat, president from 1829-1837, sixty-one years old and from Tennessee. Jackson highly disliked distinction of privilege, he believed he was a voice of the common man. However, he did not take the public’s opinion and use that as a guide for his presidency. Instead, he did what he knew he wanted to do, then procured the public’s opinion in support of his ideas. Andrew Jackson ran against the previous president, John Quincy Adams, in 1828. This is the second time that Jackson ran against Adams, the first time being in 1824 when Adams won. The first six presidents, unlike Jackson, were men from the east, wealthy, and educated. While Andrew Jackson was from the west and was self-made, he declared education was unnecessary for political leadership. He was committed to remaining a man of the people, he defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans, which gained him the title of a national hero. Jackson also relied on his ‘kitchen cabinet’ and created the spoils

Andrew Jackson won the important Electoral College vote by ninety-nine votes, however, John Quincy Adams, who only got eighty-four Electoral College votes, won the presidency. Even though Jackson got the most votes, it was only forty-three percent, and due to it not being the majority, the House of Representatives chose the winner out of the two of them. Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, had also ran for president, coming in third it the Electoral College vote. He detested Jackson, and it was because of this that Adams won the election. He forged an Ohio Valley-New England Coalition that secured John Quincy Adam’s place in the White House. However, Adam was nearly as bad of a president as his father, John Adams. To Jacksonian’s, followers of Andrew Jackson, the Adams-Clay Alliance stood for a corrupt system, where aristocrats cared only for themselves, and not for the