Andrew+Jackson

==  ﻿ Andrew Jackson ==  A good president is a president who takes measures in appropriate manners to try to strength the place it is in charge of to the best of its ability. Based on the actions that Andrew Jackson took as a president he was not a good president. The things that Andrew Jackson did, does not match up to the definition of a good president, therefore informing others, that he was not a good president.  During Andrew Jackson’s presidency, he enforced the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal act was enforced by Andrew Jackson with hopes of exterminating, and moving the Indians to the south western part of the United States in hopes of strengthening the western frontier, however, that was not the case. During the moving of the Indians, they were put on a journey called the Trial of Tears. The name of the trial speaks for itself. During the Trial of Tears, the United States army had specific orders to give those on the trail infected blankets that had small pox in them. The United States army knew specifically that the long journey was already long and tiring enough, but with a strong sickness such as small pox would just kill them off. As horrible as that is, the United States army, were ordered to shoot any who did not continue walking during the trail. Andrew Jackson basically ordered these people who lived in the United States to not be part of the nation that they originally belonged to. Andrew Jackson was using the tactic of sectionalism which brought the nation apart, which was against what previous president Monroe has built in hopes of regaining.

 Also during presidency, Andrew Jackson put a tariff onto the nation. This impacted the southern farmers which were his supposed supporters that he would take care of. The tariff restricted anyone from buying cheaper goods from the British. The southern farmers bought all of their supplies from the British because they were cheap. That left the southern farmers to have to buy supplies from the more expensive northern companies. States threatened to withdraw from the government if the tariff wasn’t revoked. Jackson goes against his word, because he revoked something that apparently hurt the southerners with the second national bank, but he then hurt them again with the tariff that would potentially hurt the economy if they weren’t able to by enough goods.  The expectation to becoming a good president is not an easy task. They are expected to do the best that they can to protect the nation they are in charge of and unite the country as best as it can. However, Andrew Jackson failed to do this resulting in weighing into more of the category of a bad president rather than a better. The attempts of restoring our country and using nationalist techniques to make it stronger was shadowed by his sectionalism tactics that drove the country split into categories. Andrew Jackson as a president rather took a sectionalist manner to restore it, rather than a natonal way, as it should.



