Andrew Jackson Dbq

Andrew Jackson is “A Man of the People.” Because of the great wars he fought and never gave up on his men. For example, he treated his men when they were sick with his own pocket and never gave up on them. Although his attitude was different and demanding, he was a great president.

All though he was a man of people who disliked Indians, so he really wasn't as much of a man of people towards the Indians, which made him a little bit of a bad president. At first he thought and fought with the Indians during the fight against the Redsticks. So then they called President Andrew Jackson the second George Washington. Then after he became president he signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Which was an act which made the Indians migrate to the West so America could have their land. So that shows how much Andrew Jackson disliked Indians.

With Andrew Jackson's presidency, he handled crises well and always sought victory, and that was his mindset. To give an idea, when Andrew Jackson was the president, he thought the United States National Bank was bad because it held all the gold and silver so they had the most money. But Jackson wanted to kill the bank and move all the gold and silver to state banks. He also believed the bank was

But the South was furious because they relied on imported goods. So President Jackson didn’t really seem like a man of people because he didn’t care that the South would hurt because of the Tariff. It was also terrifying, to give an idea how he told the South that “If even one drop of blood is shed in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man I see from the first tree I can find.”(Ages of Jackson document). So he wasn't playing around, but that really didn't make him a man of people. Nevertheless, Jackson came to an agreement with the South that he will lower the tariff in exchange for the South's