Andrew Jackson: Bully?

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Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), was a presidential bully. He did not make decisions based on the interests of the whole nation but on his own personal benefit. Although he portrayed or possibly manipulated the citizens to believe that he was a president for the common man that was simply not the way he acted. His presidency and policies, such as the Indian Removal Act, and his part in The Second Bank of the U.S and South Carolina's Tariff, consisted of such personal opinion and were so controversial few will ever forget the reign of Andrew Jackson.

As president, he was said to be rude and uneducated, which might have led to the reasons why he was such a power hungry tyrant; but before one makes this harsh judgment they must first realize the type of life that Andrew Jackson lived. It almost certainly was the main reason why his thought process was so different from the regular wealthy, educated presidents before him. The third child of Irish immigrants, Jackson was said to have a bed reputation throughout his childhood because he had a quick temper. He grew up with people who were ready to fight at any time to defend their honor. Whenever a boy played a joke on Jackson, Jackson would chal

South Carolina's tariff was a major controversy in the United States during Jackson's presidency. He promised the south a reduction in the taxes and duties they were enduring to the levels first established in1828. These set levels were acceptable to the southerners as opposed to the higher rates enforced since then. In 1832 Jackson reduced these rates by a small margin, but not nearly as much as his original promise. South Carolina retaliated against this insulting lack of concern for their voice in U.S. government. In 1833 congress passed a comprise bill which would set a new tariff. When this new deal was accepted by all other southern states the fear of the succession of South Carolina was brought to a happy end for Jackson.

The most controversial decision made by Andrew Jackson during his presidency was his role in the Indian Removal Act. In May of 1830 the U.S. Congress voted in favor of this act. The removal of Natives from their lands in the east to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) became an important part of national Indian policy. During the1830s and 1840s the U.S. Army forced thousands of natives and their families to leave their belongings and move west of the Mississippi to present day Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Andrew Jackson, in 1830, signed the law, and he demanded that the natives resettle west of the Mississippi. The act of 1830 gave the president authority to designate specific lands for natives, and in 1834 Congress formally approved this choice. The new territory consisted of specific boundaries that restricted the Indians free will. The Cherokee Indians of northwestern Georgia created their own constitution that attempted to save their tribe. Within the document the Cherokees where said to be sov

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