Andrew Jackson Summary

1. Andrew Jackson was a land surveyor and a slave owner .He had no problem accumulating land. In addition to that land he owned a lot of slaves. He married into a rich family which automatically gave him more power. He was well known for fighting in the Seminole war and defeating them, which led to the treaty of Spain.in 1824 he got his first shot at presidency but he was defeated by john Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson didn’t give up; he later created a democratic party for the south which was against northern interest .He was later elected the 7th president in 1829. He immediately started enforcing his power. He immediately used his power against the banks. He was against the national bank because he didn’t trust northeastern business and thought there would be a lot of manipulation. He chartered and vetoed the banks. Another concept was that Andrew Jackson was for states’ rights, but he supported the tax on imports. The southern states did not like that and refused to pay it. They felt that the northerners where gaining power because the tariff insulated northern businesses, but the southerners didn’t because all the prices went up. Andrew Jackson used military power in South Carolina to get them to pay the tariffs. Andrew Jackson also introduced the spoils system. The spoils system was the concept of bringing your friends and family on board to run government positions, despite them not having the proper skill set to run the country. Another aspect of ‘The age of Jackson” is the fact that he supports the “Indian removal act” which enforced the removal of Indians to the west side of America. People tried to fight against it because they felt it was unconstitutional. A Supreme Court case was started called Worchester vs. Georgia i...

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...elt that it would be detrimental to let slaves go. Their main source of income was from the slaves . The northern states where more industrialized and didn’t need slaves. They paid workers to do the work, thus slightly eradicating slavery. There where numerous problems that further fueled the fire . The missouri compromise clearly stated that everything north is free and everything south is a slave state , but the Kansas Nebraska act contradicted it ,and allowed some northern states to be slave states also . As a result, many fights broke out in Kansas. Lincoln's war goals changed as the war developed. Lincoln mentioned the need for national unity in his March 1861 inaugural address after seven states had already declared their retreat. Lincoln wanted to make the union a focus and put it as a goal so he could unite the war democrats ,republicans,ansd border states .