If you were a voter in America during the period of Jackson’s presidency, he would have been the ideal candidate for president. He was known as ‘A man of the people’ as he was an ordinary man himself. He made every decision according to the will of the American people. He polled more than 56% of the popular vote that was almost twice as his opponent Henry Clay, was a protagonist; he faced the best British regulars, those who beat the napoleons and won making his country look vigorous. Andrew Jackson was a change from the past presidents, he was not from the Washington elites and was referred to as “A Man of the people”. He signed the Indian Removal act, which removed all indian tribes living east to the Mississippi River, which affected …show more content…
He believed that all voting rights should given to all white men, and that you don’t need to be rich or own property to vote. But he still excluded women and African Americans. Under his presidency, he disbanded all parties and created a new part called the Democratic Party which is still in formation today. Jackson had a huge problem facing the Union called the Miss South Carolina nullification crisis. South Carolina were irritated about the high federal tariff on imported goods, which helped New Englands at the expense of southern planters. Jackson threatened them, but things cooled down and South Carolina backed down and congress modified the terror. Jackson became involved in a clash with the Second Bank of the Unites States; it was a private corporation that was actually a government-sponsored monopoly. Jackson showed his opposition against the bank in public, and later got it charged with disproportionate economic privilege, and the people of the United States backed him up. Jackson also reduced the federal debt to only $33 million the lowest it had been for years. He was the only president in history to have paid off the national debt. The spoils