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    Andrew Jackson, ranked as one of the best presidents the United States has had, he did a lot of good also a lot of bad. Jackson believed that states should have more power than the Federal government, but he did the opposite when he was in office, giving the President more power, by signing a veto, than before he was in office. Jackson was also not accepting of the Supreme Court’s decisions by not enforcing their rulings. One reason Jackson was not a spectacular president is because he did not enforce

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    “The Age of Jackson” was a time when the high society aristocrats were threatened by the commoner. Jackson was a common man himself; orphaned as a boy, Jackson, rose to the top and became an admired general and commander in chief. Jackson affected the outlook on the class system, the method of electing our president, the spread of the spoils system, the fighting between the north and the south, the interactions between America and the Indians, and he helped lead our country to inflation. With Jackson’s

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    President’s either change the United States for the better of for the worse. Andrew Jackson did both. At age twelve, Andrew Jackson fought in the Revolutionary War. Jackson was a war hero for the War of 1812, fought in the Battle of New Orleans, lost the election to John Q. Adams in 1824 because it was a corrupt election. Andrew Jackson was a national war hero and shaped the country in many ways. After Andrew Jackson became President, he threw a party in the White House for anyone to attend. Some

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    Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States of America, “Old Hickory.” There are many names for the former president, but was he a democratic supporter of the people or a tyrant? Andrew Jackson became famous at the Battle of New Orleans at the end of the War of 1812. Although he was born poor and had little formal education, he ran for president in the election of 1824 and had a plurality win but the House of Representatives chose John Quincy Adams. Was Andrew Jackson a president who

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    Andrew Jackson. The president is known for democracy. But does he earn that name? Well, Andrew Jackson throughout his life has been quite depressing. His father died when he was 13, he soon got captured and got seriously beaten by British officers. Soon after he got back home, his mother died. Jackson never back down from fights. Andrew Jackson decided to study law at age 17. Then when he was 21 he became a lawyer. He got married and moved to Tennessee. At age 29, he was elected Tennessee's first

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    Andrew Jackson, an “Old Hickory” who never had much education where as he spent it in the military and believed in a smaller government, was elected president in 1828 and became the seventh president of the United States. Before him was John Quincy Adams, a guy who was raised wealthy, went to college, and believed in a bigger government. Jackson did run against Adams in 1824, but lost because Jackson did not get the majority vote, which caused the House of Representatives to pick. After Adam’s presidential

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    President Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson helped to provide for a strong protection of popular democracy and individual liberty to the United States. Andrew Jackson known as the people’s president held a strong emotion in the states right’s which advocated to the increase of executive power. President Andrew Jackson was good for his country, because he provided certain decisions that helped form America into a better place than where it was before. President Andrew Jackson showed significant positives

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    based solely on how they acted or should we step into their shoes first? Andrew Jackson’s presidency made him one of the most controversial presidents that has ever existed in the history of the United States of America. Andrew Jackson for many was a cruel tyrant who reinstated the tax on british goods with Tariff of 1828 and rejected the renewal for the charter of the Second National Bank of the United States. Andrew Jackson also created the Indian Removal Act of 1830 which end result would be the

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    presidential election, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote and electoral college, but did not win the election. Because there were four candidates, Jackson did not win the majority vote, leaving the decision to the House of Representatives. Going against the people’s wishes, they voted John Quincy Adams into office. But in 1828, Andrew Jackson ran for president again, and this time he won by a landslide. But his decisions made in office made people question whether or not Andrew Jackson was a democratic

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    Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 after he lost the presidency in 1824 due to a corrupt bargain between his opponents John Quincy Adams, who won the presidency, and Henry Clay, who became the Secretary of State. Jackson was outraged that he hadn’t won despite having the most votes. Jackson won the presidency and the people were extremely happy. They thought that the election was biased and that resulted in the Jackson losing the race. Before his inaugural address, there were swarms of people yelling

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