Andrew Jackson was the first self-made man to be elected as the President of the United States. Jackson gained popularity as being a military hero and because he showed sympathy toward the common man. Although Jackson did good for some minorities, by enabling white men with no land to their name to vote, his tendencies to make decisions based on personal belief caused thousands of deaths and hardships to other large minority groups that were not white men.
With the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828, the democratic party was born. The election of 1828 saw the first time that men without wealth and land were able to vote. The democratic party hated that political elites decided who would lead the nation and how what the majority wanted was ignored. Jackson understood the views of the majority and hated the rich elite. Jackson's hatred for the wealthy appeared when he vetoed the bill to re- charter the Second National Bank of the United States. Many people viewed the bank as tool of the wealthy that made the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. Jackson showed the Democratic party that he sympathized with them and cared about their well-being and was sympathetic, something a president had not done before. …show more content…
In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act. This act called for the removal of five civilized tribes from their home in southeastern United States to move to the west. The Indian Removal Act was supported by Jackson and the majority of whites. Jackson felt that Indian groups presented a problem for state sovereignty and white citizens supported the act because the Cherokee in Georgia had rich agricultural lands and gold that they wanted. Although the Cherokee adopted white culture by practicing Christianity and owning slaves, the whites believed that the Cherokee were "incapable of becoming full citizens of the