As the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson had a significant presidency that is still debated about today. Andrew Jackson’s legacy is tarnished by his treatment of slaves, removal of Native Americans with the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the political turmoil involving his cabinet. Despite this, Andrew Jackson is ranked among the top ten presidents because his presidency significantly shaped the United States. From a very young age, Andrew Jackson was a patriot at heart and fought for his country. During the Revolutionary War, young Andrew Jackson was a messenger boy who delivered letters and messages through the dense woods of the Carolinas to the American troops. Jackson served again as a patriot against the British …show more content…
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 could have caused a civil war. According to “Andrew Jackson Shifting Legacy” the Nullification Crisis was caused when “South Carolina declared the tariff law unconstitutional and therefore null and void” (Feller). The protective tariff was an “import tax that provided much of the government’s revenue and also aided American manufacturers by raising the prices of competing foreign (mainly British) goods” (Feller). This meant that the southern economy would suffer because they would have to pay more for manufactured goods as competition was decreased. South Carolina schemed to get other southern states to nullify the tariff. However, to this Jackson responded “Our Federal Union, it must be preserved” (PBS:Jackson).This showed that Jackson was determined to solve the nullification issue and stop South Carolina from causing a civil war. Fortunately, a compromise was passed through Congress which South Carolina accepted and Andrew Jackson approved. Without Andrew Jackson’s determination to stop the Nullification Crisis, there would have been no incentive to pass a compromise, and the issue could have resulted in a civil war. In addition to saving the country from war, Andrew Jackson attempted to save an economic …show more content…
He argued that the bank made the rich richer and didn 't benefit the poor. Jackson believed that the Bank of the United States had too much power over people’s lives. The Bank was dangerous to the common people because their money and lives were controlled by rich bankers that were not elected. (PBS: Jackson). Additionally, the bank only favored the businessmen and rich people of the North, which was where the major industries and manufacturing were. As a result, Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Banks of the United States in 1832 to protect the common people from the “Monster Bank” (PBS: Jackson). The rich bankers would not be able to bend the rules for their own profit because the federal entity no longer existed. Jackson destroyed the Bank of the United States to protect the common people from the control of rich northern bankers. Despite Jackson’s best interests for the common people, his actions did have dire economic consequences. However, his actions proved that Jackson was truly the common man’s president and supported the majority
Andrew Jackson wanted and even gave everyone equal economic opportunity by lessening monopoly with his bank veto. However, the financial panic of 1837 was caused by two of his plans, these include pet banks and Specie Circular. People in favor of the national bank proposed a renewal bill for the Second National Bank's charter. Jackson was not necessarily opposed to central banking as much as he was to the idea of the Second National Bank. By opposing the bill, the Second Bank expired and the US would be without an official bank for many years.
Andrew Jackson is one of the reasons we have the world’s most trusting economic system. For instance, Jackson saved our country’s money by not allowing a second Bank Of The United States to be formed. On History.com “The war on the Second Bank of the United States and subsequent hard-money initiatives set the tone—an unyielding effort to remove the hands of a few wealthy, unelected private bankers from the levers
It especially opposed control by a select few and so the Bank was doubly against Jacksonian ideals. Andrew Jackson cited these reasons in his veto message which show that his veto reflected the core beliefs of Jacksonian
Jackson in response to some states nullification asked congress to pass a legislation which would permit him to use federal troops to enact a federal law which has been nullified. By doing this Jackson made it clear to any state that didn’t follow the new tariff law that he would send in the military if necessary. However Jackson not only threatened troops but that he would also hang every person who refused to pay the tariffs. As a president this seemed harsh to say to his American people. Eventually there was an avoidance of an armed confrontation by the Congress, however Jacksons actions to the common working class man was that he was looking out for the working class and limiting the power of the
The era of Andrew Jackson which was nicknames the era of the “common man” certainly lived up to its name. As the seventh President of the United States, Jackson had a major effect on the life of the common man, in such a way that the life of the common man would never be the same again. Jackson’s aim, after the manner in which he was defeated in the Presidential Election of 1824, despite receiving more popular votes than John Quincy Adams who took on the office, was to reduce the power and the authority of the elite. When he came into power after the 1828 election Jackson began to carry out his proposals. Jackson expanded the voting right to all men, in accordance with the Declaration of Independence of 1776 which declared that “all men are created equal” instead of just the elite.
In keeping with the principle, Jackson tried to abolish the College Electors (those who choose the president) by Constitutional amendment.” This quote shows President Jackson’s heroism in fighting for the people to have the power to elect their president directly. Many people would disagree and say Andrew Jackson is a villain, he did do things that were frowned upon. Probably the most negative thing is the Indian Removal Act.
How Democratic Was Andrew Jackson? Jackson was born in the year 1767 to a poor family. When he was only 13 years old he was captured from the British during the revolutionary war. As he got older he found himself in the military and he was called a national hero when he fought in the battle of 1812. He served for two terms as president and Jacksonian or is followers say that he was democratic where the people are heard.
Jackson 's push to abolish national banks other wise known as "the bank wars" was one of his more well known pushes for small government. In 1832, Jackson had vetoed a bill calling for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter, but renewal was still possible when the charter expired
In the document “Jackson Battles the Bank”, it shows Jackson fighting off a monster, or the national bank, with a veto stick. Jackson was fighting to destroy the national bank. He wanted to do this because it favored the rich and not the common people. He was fighting for people to have equal rights. Instead of having no bank at all, he came up with the idea to create state banks which wouldn’t be as powerful as the National Bank.
Brittany Randall-Neppl APUSH Period 6 Mr. Kloster 12/19/2014 Andrew Jackson: Champion of the Common Man or Tyrant Andrew Jackson was born into a common life but overcame his mediocre beginnings to become a powerful politician; in 1828 he was elected president of the United States. However, he abused this position of power and made several choices that were detrimental to the welfare and rights of the American people. Jackson implemented the spoils system on a national scale and had unofficial members of his cabinet who did not have to answer to Congress. After South Carolinians were upset by the Tariff of 1832 he was angry toward those who did not agree with it. He also destroyed the National Bank and authorized the Specie Circular.
Andrew Jackson, being a tyrant, abused his power in his time of presidency. He was the 7th president, but before Jackson’s presidency, he had no political experience. One of the only things that really qualified him was the hardships he went through when he was younger. His father had died while Jackson was young and Jackson received the reputation as a “self-made man”, or an independent man.
Andrew Jackson has been remembered as a ground breaking president, even being put on the $20. President Jackson was a controversial figure, doing many popular and unpopular things in his time. Although he is remembered as a hero from the war of 1812, he also caused the Trail of Tears and tried to destroy the National Bank. As a result, Jackson should not be put on the $20 bill. His actions have caused many misfortune showing that villains do exist.
He mistrusted paper money greatly, as well as believed in power to the common people. Andrew Jackson feared the Bank’s power. He was afraid of the Bank becoming stronger and lending that power to the elite without holding accountability towards them, something he believed great powers should have; accountability. Jackson specifically stated that he believed the Bank made “the rich richer and the potent more powerful.” Jackson liked the so-called farmer’s economy since it motivated people to be hardworking and independent.
One of the biggest thing that Jackson had done as a president was in 1832. Jackson vetoed a bill that would renew the second bank charter early. Jackson stated “I will kill it!”. He said this because he didn’t like the bank at all and he believed that it made the rich richer and the poor poorer. He said in his veto message “It is easy to conceive that great evils to our country and its institutions might flow from such a concentration of power in the hands of a few men irresponsible to the people.”
Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), was one of the most controversial presidents in the American history. His followers saw his election as the arrival of the true democracy, the coming to power of the “common man.” On the other hand, his opponents considered him the instigator of the “Trail of Tears” since he enforced the Indian Removal Act in 1830. In the age of Jackson, he represented major developments of his era, a self-made man, the market revolution, the westward movement, and the growth of democracy. Andrew Jackson was a symbol of the self-made man.