Bad qualities of Andrew Jackson

Answer 1

Good:

. Allowed the common white male to serve in government

. improved trade with European and south American countries

. earned lots of respect for demanding our right full payment from France

Bad

. closed the national banking system

. He only put his friends in government jobs. This was known as the "spoil system".

. He killed many Native Americans.

. He exercised his power in government by ignoring two branches of government.

. He was a slave owner

. He broke campaign promises

ex/ said supported state gov over fed. government then ended up expanding fed gov

Didn't just kill many Native Americans, he was responsible for the Trail of Tears - thousands of Native Americans died because of him.

. In the first inaugural address of Andrew Jackson he said he would observe the Indian's rights which is a consistent habit of our government and the feelings of our people. Then turns around and forces Indians to move west because he found gold in there territory which at the time was Georgia.

He grew up with lots of anger and did some pretty bad things before he squared himself.

• He got into many fights

• He stole another man's wife, even though they were getting a divorce she was still legally married.

Answer 2

The bigest thing people have agaisnt President Jackson was that he athurized the forced removal of the Native Americans from their native lands

Answer 3

Andrew Jackson had a policy that the Native Americans needed to be removed from ancestral lands or die.