...Andrew Jackson was a brave, heroic and one to take action quickly. These were all traits that cause both the good and the bad to show in his presidency. But even though Andrew Jackson made bad decisions during those 8 years as the most powerful man in the United States of America, he was one of the best to have that position. Andrew Jackson’s presidency will forever be one of the most known presidencies ever in our history. Before Jackson’s Presidency he was already changing America. He first developed the idea of the Jacksonian Democracy. This stated that all people in America can vote, But it really meant that all white men rich or poor can vote. I believe this was a great decision for both him and the people of the united states. It first...
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...Throughout Andrew Jackson’s presidency, he was able to convey many things, such as his actions or behavior, towards many people. Though some of his actions were not professional and could be questionable, it can be argued that others were the right thing to do. He was often criticized, but some people may have believed the actions in his time were necessary. In general, Andrew Jackson’s presidency by considering his portrayal as “A Man of the People,” his treatment of Native Americans, and his handling of crises like the Nullification Crisis and the Bank war could be questionable by many people, but for the most part, not good, considering his events and personality or characteristics would not be able to balance other things out. Jackson’s...
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...Andrew Jackson was the first president to be born in a log cabin. He was not New England wealthy elite, like his opponent John Quincy Adams. If the electors were appointed by the legislature, he did not have a chance of becoming president. When he ran for president in 1828, the land ownership requirements were taken away for the first time, giving all white adult males the chance to vote. In the words of Thomas Bailey and David Kennedy, “the election was a “revolution” comparable to that of 1800.” (Changes in elections- document 2) The election of 1828 was a more democratic election, therefore electing a more democratic president. Due to the new electoral system, Jackson invented the Spoils System to ‘thank’ his supporters. Being a war hero, Jackson thought that To the Victors belong the Spoils. The ‘spoils’ were not just money though. Jackson rewarded his supporters with government jobs, saying “I submit, therefore, to you consideration whether the efficiency of the government would not be promoted … and integrity better secured by a general extension of the law which limits appointments to four years.” (Spoils System document 2)...
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...No, Andrew Jackson should not be removed from the $20 bill. Andrew Jackson was the 7th President of the United States and he served two terms as President between 1828 and 1836. While Jackson’s Presidency is marked with several controversies it also is marked with several successes. Andrew Jackson was popular with the average American man during this time. He was often referred to as the common man’s President. Prior to Andrew Jackson being elected President the wealthy aristocrats played a larger role in politics and the United States had a corrupt governmental system. After Jackson’s successful election government in the United States was changed. Jackson was a founding leader of the Democratic Party. Jackson believed that the president is not just an executive. He believed that as President he should be a representative of all the people. Andrew Jackson played a large part in shaping our democracy today. (Andrew Jackson, 2013) Andrew Jackson played a vital role in the shaping of the United States modern democracy. Many opponents of Jackson believe that he should not be on the $20 dollar bill because of his decisions towards Native Americans and the fact that he owned several hundred slaves. Although these are true facts regarding Andrew Jackson I don’t feel as though they are reason enough to remove him from the $20 dollar bill. We have to think about the time frame that Andrew Jackson was elected president in. During this time slavery was not against the law and...
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...campaigns followed by Andrew Jackson’s presidency and the rise of the Whig Party in opposition. During the “Era of Good Feelings,” James Monroe, a Democrat-Republican was elected as president. At this point, there is less discrepancy between political candidates as there is a singular party. However, the election of 1824 between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson ends the country’s mediation. The House of Representatives is forced to choose the winner as no candidate won the majority of electoral votes. Despite Andrew Jackson earning more popular votes, John Quincy Adams is selected as the sixth president of the United States. Due to John Quincy Adam’s close relationship with Speaker of the House, Henry Clay, Jackson denounced the election a “corrupt bargain.” In Document C, future American president Martin Van Buren, criticizes the perceived misconduct and states that “combing Genl. Jackson’s personal popularity with the portion of old party” is the only way to restore the virtue of the American...
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...Jackson’s Support for People’s Rights For a long time, there has been political parties or at least separation of support. Andrew Jackson had many defects, but one thing that helped him with the election was his idea that people were more important than the law. Jackson’s claim for the “common man” were supported by his ideas of the veto of the National Bank, his identity as a war hero, and his decision for the trail of tears. The National Bank was an idea with a lot of controversy. Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill from congress to renew the bank because he believed the bank to be unconstitutional and harmful to state rights. In the Panic of 1819, farmers and low class workers were bitter about the national bank since it was low-key noticed that the bank favored the wealthy. Jackson supported the lower class colonists and stated that he would kill the bank before it killed him. Jackson’s move to bring down the bank was rejoiced since it resembled so closely how the colonists supported the East Tea Company. The bank became an issue in the election of 1832, but Jackson easily won with his support of the citizens....
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...- 1. Andrew Jackson's election greatly influenced a new era in politics in many ways. During Jackson's presidency, the United States was very different than it was during the time of the Revolutionary War. White men were able to obtain suffrage when qualifications for voting by the states was ended. The Jacksonians searched to make economic opportunity within reach for the common many. Because of this, politics changed with the establishment of national conventions, where the leaders of each parties chose the candidates and platforms for their party. Even though there was a lot of effort to democratize opportunity economically for the common man, the elite class of cities remained in control of society and politics. - 2. Jackson disagreed with the federal involvement of the economy. He wanted to lower government spending and vetoed many bills put forward to use federal money. He vetoed a bill to recharter the second bank of the United States because he...
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...commander in chief, a president whom would be enforcing the laws of the land to lead the federal government and the people. George Washington became the first president and the role model for future presidents. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president and he was the first in many things. His election was a turning point in American politics because he was an innovator of the presidency in contrast to some of his predecessors. Andrew Jackson was both loved and hated at the same time. His innovations had positive and negative effects within the presidency, government and the people that in the end were helpful to guide his future successors. Andrew Jackson was the seventh...
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...Andrew Jackson’s historical legacy is one covered with controversy, with historians and others taking the position of either high praise, or high negativity with no medium - people either like him or loathe him, there’s no in-between. Following Jackson’s death in 1845, he has acquired several accolades that could be used to determine whether he had an impact on history during his presidencies. Firstly, he appears on the $20 bill, one of only a few influential historical figures who have also made it on the American currency - the fact that he shares such an exclusive position alongside the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, all indisputably influential and important figures in American history, means that he must have had a successful presidency. Secondly, he ranks fifth in the all-time most influential presidents list, which is high praise indeed considering there has been 43 other presidents. This essay will aim to examine the positives and negatives of Andrew Jackson’s presidencies and whether he is deserving of his historical legacy which places him fifth in the all time most influential presidents. Jackson was the first man of so called ‘low birth’ to be elected as President. Jackson, having failed to win the 1824 election despite winning the plurality of the popular and electoral vote, and infuriated by Clay and Adam’s ‘Corrupt Bargain’, came back stronger for his running in the 1828 election. By this election, white men of all backgrounds...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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...Chapter 7: The Rise of Manufacturing and the Age of Jackson (1820–1845) THE GROWTH OF THE FACTORY Economic growth was a key component of Henry Clay’s American System, and in the aftermath of the War of 1812, measures were taken to expand American industry. American industries were protected by the Tariff of 1816, which raised import tariffs by 25 percent. At the same time state governments began improving road, river, and canal transportation systems. Before 1820 almost all products made in America were completed using a system borrowed from Europe called the putting-out system. Under this system merchants would buy the raw materials, recruit dozens, or in some case hundreds, of farm families to do the work, and then sell the finished product. Many shoes in New England were made in this manner; women and children would make part of the shoe, which would be finished by experienced shoemakers. Beginning in the late 1780s the textile industry started to use power-driven machines and interchangeable parts. All power in these early factories came from water, so the early factories all were located along rivers. Most were located in New England or the Middle states. In the 1790s factories like those in Lowell, Massachusetts, began to weave cotton imported from the south. With the introduction of the cotton gin in the same decade, more cotton became available, and production boomed. By 1840 the textile industry employed nearly 75,000 workers, with almost half of...
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...I will be talking about Andrew Jackson, his childhood, his lifestyle, and when he was a young adult. He did many things in his lifetime and he also did some bad things, like duels in his backyard. I will also talk about some fun facts, what drew him to be President, and what he did while he was President. Let’s ride into the paper. Andrew Jackson was an ordinary child. He was born in South Carolina in the Garden Of Waxhaws on March 15, 1767. He had two parents and two brothers. His mom were Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. His father was Andrew Jackson; he was named after his father. He had two brothers their names were Robert Jackson and Hugh Jackson. His father died three months before he was born. Andrew, was the...
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...Andrew Jackson was a man of many inconsistencies. He was a defender of the common man, but he also ignored the rights of the Native American peoples. Jackson was all for democracy, but he also behaved like a tyrant. He also defended national and state rights. Jackson was a representative for the common man in many ways. He broke the belief that only the wealthy and well educated could serve as president. Jackson came from a poor family and by the time he was 14, he became an orphan. The people loved and related well to Jackson because they felt that he knew and understood their struggles and would do everything he could to help them. One of the major controversies caused during Jackson’s presidency was over the Bank of the United States. Jackson...
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...PROJECT: THE TRIAL OF ANDREW JACKSON Adapted from a simulation by Eric Rothschild Andrew Jackson the seventh President of the United States under the Constitution, has been impeached in the House of Representatives (not really, this is fictional – JACKSON WAS NOT REALLY IMPEACHED). He will go on trial in the U.S. Senate on July 1, 1838. Here are the charges against Jackson: • Violating the rights of Native Americans, especially in his treatment of the Cherokee and Creek Indians • Stepping on state’s rights in his economic policy and his behavior in the nullification crisis • General bad character You will work in groups I assign for the trial. Here are the group assignments: 1. Prosecution Indictment #1 (arguing against Jackson) 2. Prosecution Indictment #2 (arguing against Jackson) 3. Defense Team Indictment #1(arguing for Jackson) 4. Defense Team Indictment #2(arguing for Jackson) 5. Andrew Jackson, witness for the defense Indictment #1: President Jackson violated states rights in his dealings with South Carolina in the nullification crisis. 6. Witness group: South Carolinian Nullifiers led by John C. Calhoun 7. Witness group: Opponents of Nullification Indictment #2: President Jackson violated laws, treaties, and court orders in his dealings with Native Americans. 8. Witness group Native Americans led by Osceola 9. Witness group: Supreme Court led by John Marshall Each group will be...
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...the most important issues concerning the presidency is how much power he should have in regard to what the Constitution allows. Several presidents have been criticized for surpassing what the Constitution allows, but none more than Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Andrew Jackson was hailed as a champion of the common man, however his questionable use of the veto and harsh policies led to severe criticism. Abraham Lincoln was the most divisive president in history and his stance on slavery changed the course of the United States’ history. Theodore Roosevelt was a man who believed in “speaking softly and carrying a big stick” and this stance let him get what he wanted, no matter the repercussions. Presidential...
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