How Is Andrew Jackson Bad

Andrew Jackson had become the seventh president of the United States after a close election in 1824, where John Quincy Adams had become president because of a deal that was made in the House of Representatives. Eventually in 1828 Andrew Jackson had gotten elected, but this was because he had gotten the support of farmers and merchants, since he announced that he planned to destroy the national bank. In his presidency, Andrew Jackson did many things, like mistreating Native Americans, and eventually dealing with the Nullification crisis after it caused a lot of damage. In my opinion, Andrew Jackson’s presidency was not a good one.

Andrew Jackson might be seen as, “A man of the people”, but I don’t think so. At the time Andrew Jackson was elected

Ever since 1814 when Andrew Jackson and the U.S. military had defeated the Creek tribe when they had tried to resist American presence, Jackson had hated Native Americans. So, in 1830, two years after he had gotten elected, the Indian Removal Act was passed, where land in the Indian territory was traded for the land that the Native Americans were living on. After the last of the tribes would not move to the Indian territory, Andrew Jackson ordered there to be a forced removal. American soldiers had forced the rest of the rebel Native Americans to march all the way to the Indian territory, which was not close at all, and killed many Native

The Nullification Crisis had first started when a tariff, or tax, was put on imported goods, but a little while later Southerners called this tax unfair. This was because this benefited the North more than it did the South. Since the North had a manufacturing base, they would get more business because the goods they were selling were way cheaper. For the South, they relied a lot on the foreign imports, so this tariff really hurt them because they had to pay extra just to buy everything they needed. Eventually, Jackson agreed to a compromise, which had fixed this argument. Then for the Bank War, Andrew Jackson made a plan to take down the national bank, and it worked. He took all of the federal funds from the bank, and then waited for the charter to expire, and for the bank to collapse. As stated in the text, “Many in Congress believed that the president had abused his power during the bank crisis and, as a result, Jackson was censured by Congress in 1834.” People did not like Andrew Jackson’s decision, and many people in Congress disapproved heavily of his