Andrew Jackson was a man of the people because he wanted the best of ordinary people and not just the rich. He always tried his best to help the people in any way he could, putting himself in danger multiple times. In the last paragraph of Andrew Jackson: A Man of the People? It says, “Jackson's presidency was marked by issues where he fought for what he believed was in the interests of the common man.”Jackson always stood up for what he thought was right for the people, making him “a man of the people.” Although Jackson was called a man of the people, he was only a man of the people to white people. Jackson often went to war with native Americans for their lands and killed many, which gave him the nickname “Sharp Knife.” He thought the native land as very valuable and tried to push native Americans out of the land to make room for the white people. The native Americans refused to leave, so the US military forced them out of their lands. In the tenth paragraph of Jackson’s Treatment of Native Americans it says, “During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the United States military forcefully removed the …show more content…
After tariffs were raised and Virginia threatened to leave the nation, Jackson threatened them back by saying that he would hang them all. In the Bank war, Jackson worked quickly to get rid of the bank and used his power to do it. In Jackson’s Handling of the Nullification Crisis it says, “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.” and in the last paragraph of Jackson and his War with the National Bank it says, “In 1833, Jackson sped up his plans. He announced a plan to remove all federal funds from banks and redistribute the money to various state banks, thereby starving the bank to death.” This evidence shows how much power he abused during his