Andrew Jackson, our seventh president, is often called “The People's President.” However, history has remembered the popular things he did, but ignored the horrible deeds he committed. He should not deserve the title “People's President” since his highly biased opposition to the national bank and his aggressive action and supposed “solution” to the nullification crisis have had widespread harmful effects across America. The Indian Removal Acts of 1830 are some of the darkest moments in our country's history. Andrew Jackson was known as the sharp knife among Native Americans for his brutality towards the Indians. He wanted to aggressively remove the Indians from the land on it. He passed an act that allowed him to exchange the land the Natives were on for land far away across the Mississippi River. Many tribes disagreed, and one Cherokee tribe challenged the state of Georgia for their land rights and won in the Supreme Court. Even though they ruled that the Cherokee people had a right to their land, the state of Georgia and Jackson blatantly ignored the ruling. Jackson is quoted as saying, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let's let him enforce it." This is unconstitutional and is even an unexceptionable crime. Jackson sent his troops to brutally transport the Cherokee people to new lands. Many of them were barefoot and froze to death, walking in the dead of winter. Most of the others died of smallpox. Jackson is said to have adopted a three-year-old Cherokee boy after killing his parents while sacking a village. He also massacred Seminole tribes in Florida as they resisted the movement. Thousands of Americans were ashamed of this and were surprised by how ferocious Jackson had been when he ran Nati... in the middle of the paper... he passed the Force Bill, which said that the US Army had the right to us. United States against its own people. South Carolina decided to stand down, as they did with all these threats, and that they were willing to accept the compromise. That Jackson was willing to use the United States military against his own people is shocking. Because of this, much of the South began to despise Jackson for his willingness to fight the people and for indirectly cutting off a major source of trade for them. Based on these three premises, we can conclude that much of America disliked Andrew Jackson for a reason. reason for another. Andrew Jackson was popular before his presidency, but the Indian Removal Acts, his opposition to the national bank, and his aggressive handling of the nullification crisis demonstrate that he was not "the people's president" but a president with his own agenda.
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