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Andrew Jackson Dialectical Journal

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Walking into the barn, Jackson was greeted by Bandit shaking his head and neighing at him. Clipping the lead rope to his halter, he tied him to the ring on the wall while talked to the horse in a whispered voice for a few minutes, venting out his frustrations of the day, since Bandit only wanted his attention, which he was completely willing to give and the only one who wasn’t asking him if he wanted to talk. Given his friend’s reaction a few minutes prior, Chief watched from a few feet away, hoping to stay out of the colonel’s way and out of his line of fire. When Jackson grabbed the pitchfork and shovel to clean the stall, Chief understood what he was doing and moved the wheelbarrow to the stall door and grabbed the rake to help. Once they
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Andrew Jackson is a Democrat. The Indian Removal documents, the Spoils System documents, and the Changes in election documents show that he was Democratic. The Indian Removal documents prove Jackson was Democratic. Indian Removal Document 1 shows that the Indians were being moved. This shows that Jackson was Democratic because it helped the farmers get rich land.

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Jackson’s voting policies were democratic because they increased the power of the people. In Document 1, the table shows that after Jackson was elected, presidential electors were chosen more and more by the people instead of the legislature. By 1828, the ratio of legislature to people was 2:10. By 1832 and 1836, the ratio changed to 1:11. In line with Document 2, Daniel Webster said that he never saw anything like it, meaning he saw many poor farmers celebrating instead of rich upper class men.

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It is clear from the documents that Andrew Jackson acted like a king. One reason that Andrew Jackson acted like a king was he forced the Cherokee out of their homelands. In document 4, the political cartoon depicts Andrew Jackson is stepping on two controversial issues, The rechartering of the National Bank and the Supreme Court ruling against the Indian Removal Act because it was unconstitutional. Mr. Jackson clearly ignored the Constitution and the Supreme Court completely because the law was passed anyway. Because of this, many Cherokee families were forced from their homes and moved west to Oklahoma through a march known now as the Trail of Tears.

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It is clear from the documents that andrew Jackson was hero of the common man. Andrew jackson was a very popular person. Andrew Jackson was elected to presidency two times. In document 1 it states that Jackson had an increased amount of votes during the time of his election he was also the first president who had people voting from west of the Appalachian mountains. He had almost more than double the popular votes than Henry Clay.

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Thesis: Andrew Jackson’s followers believed to enforce than follow the constitution. Document A was written by George Henry Evans on “The Working Man’s Declaration Of Independence’. I agree and disagree with what he says on a few things. I agree on him saying that the lower and middle class tends to get oppression than the upper class. I disagree of his way of stopping oppression in society is to stand up against the government.

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Spoils System document 2 states that Jackson said that he doesn’t really value experience and that nobody has a seat saved specifically for them. He is an autocrat here because he contradicts himself by saying that nobody has “right to official station than others”. He is also giving the jobs to his chosen people, like the seat is saved for them. Spoils System document 3 stated that Jackson’s friend Van Buren tried to warn him that choosing Samuel Swatwout was a bad idea, but he didn’t listen. So, in the end Samuel stole $1,222,705.09 and Jackson laughed.

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Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson served as the 7th President of the United States of America from March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837. Born on March 15th 1767 on the border of North and South Carolina, Although Jackson said he was from South Carolina. Before we get into Jackson actually Presidency let me first inform you on the crazy journey that led him there. Jackson was the son of Irish Immigrants, and didn’t receive much formal schooling growing up. When he was 13 the British invaded the Carolinas and in the battling of it his mother and 2 brothers died, as a result we see where Jackson got his unresolved indifference towards Great Britain.

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Introduction Hook: Andrew Jackson was born in a cabin in 1767. He didnt go to school much as a kid because his family was poor and couldnt afford for him to go to school. Background Information: In his late teens, he started to study law for 2 years. He became a lawyer and moved to tennessee.

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Andrew Jackson was president of the United States from 1829-1837. He is mostly known for starting a new democracy in the United States and for the infamous Indian Removal Act. It is heavily debated whether Andrew Jackson was truly democratic or not. Democracy is giving power to the people and letting them have more say in government. I believe that Andrew Jackson was mostly democratic because he gave the common man more power, however not everything he did was democratic.

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Andrew Jackson, a president from 1829-1837, was a hero by making the United States a better place. For example, Jackson included the common man as part of the government, which became the Jacksonian Democracy. This allowed citizens to be part of the government, though they had no experience. Because congress passed the tariff crisis, it made European goods more expensive, which led to the South to protest. However, the south said that they could nullify or secede from the union.

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Andrew Jackson had a great reputation before he was president as he was known to be the people’s person and a Great War hero. Additionally, he was from the South, and won the elections by a landslide due to common people voting for him. Sectionalism is the idea of an exaggerated devotion of the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole. Jackson's presidency encouraged sectionalism due to the party’s position on opposing the bank war and also their view on the nullification crisis. Jackson's presidency encouraged sectionalism because of him opposing the bank war.

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In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States. Andrew Jackson was a strong supporter of self government and a representative for the common people. He believed in equal rights for all and that the American government job is to protect and support the common interests of the people. Jackson created the democratic party and was its leader and his policies were heavily influenced by the era of Jeffersonian democracy. His presidency from 1828-1836 marked the Rise of American Democracy where political movement was pushed towards greater democracy.

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Beginning in March of 1809, the fourth President of the United States, James Madison, was elected to serve the American people. Madison was a Virginian man who had expansive views on the future of the Country. He, along with several others, composed the US constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers. He also founded the Democratic-Republican party which was the first opposing political party. Writing the constitution, Madison believed in societal equality.

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A strong person was created even though he was orphaned at the age of fourteen. Andrew Jackson was a person that lead the colonist to victory in the war of 1812 against the British, in where he gained a lot of popularity. Also he was one of the first person to start the democrat party, he was liked by the people because he was "the peoples' President". During his presidency the Trail of Tears happened in where almost four thousand to sixteen thousand Indians died in the way to Oklahoma. Andrew Jackson impacted the era by creating a new political party and he also gave America a break from the past by being the first president that was not a popular hero in the revolutionary war.

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Born into a non-aristocratic poor family, somewhere in the Carolina’s on March 14, 1767, was a man named Andrew Jackson. Jackson, also called “Old Hickory” was a very bold proactive man in American history. From being a military hero and founding the democratic party to enacting the trail of tears and dismantling the of the Bank of the United States, the man and his legacy are a prominent topic for scholarly debate. Some believe he was a great president and some believe he was the worse president. But if you look at it from a moral perceptive or in the eyes of a foreigner, Jackson’s legacy was far more villainous than heroic.

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