Title: Andrew Jackson the King of a Mixed Image President Andrew Jackson was a president who was not viewed a president to all people. Some saw him as king who abused his power unfairly. Andrew Jackson was born in 1776 on the border of South Carolina and North Carolina. He grew up poor, his father died before his birth, was enlisted to war at the age of thirteen, Mother died shortly after returning home from war, and he also survived a British encapture. Jackson however was a Tyrant who grasped and ringed out the towel of power that he behold. His place in the executive branch made this all so real and possible. Jackson was seen as a king by many people. Due to his force of veto and ignorance of the constitution he was known as a person to abuse the power he was given. In the Jacksonian Democracy, the tariff made South Carolina unhappy, thus they put in play the Nullification Act. In response, the power crazed president was able to pass the “Force Act” which made him able to enforce law through the army. He was unhappy with the cooperation of South Carolina so he unjustly forced the problem to benefit his side of the argument by passing his own law which was very unpresidential. Andrew Jackson was a more as a child, a spoiled child then as a president. Instead of doing his homework and eating his vegetables he …show more content…
The presidents before Jackson were kind, appealing, trusting and fair. Jackson to most of his people did not portray any of these traits. Source 5 shows a cartoon of Jackson. He is in a kinglike outfit fit with a robe, crown, and scepter of sorts. He appears to be standing on a ripped constitution with a veto paper in the opposite hand of the scepter. This shows that he did not care for how the other men before him ruled. He took over as a king not a president like the men before him. King Andrew was a more appropriate title as source 5 clearly states on the bottom