Andrew Jackson

9/9/2015
Andrew Jackson was a very controversial president, with several appealing aspects to the people at the time, but also with several problems.
On the plus Andrew Jackson was:

• Very appealing to the common man. He spoke and talked about things that common people could relate to. This is the biggest one. He related to the people that matters the most in the election, a strategy in democracy that is still used today.
• A strong and stand out leader. He did not back down to another man and made sure he was heard.
• Had a strong military background.
• Was a very firm leader, which caused some problems when he had bad ideas, but also allowed for a lot less arguing and internal fraction.

However, most people would consider he had a lot more worse aspects than positive ones. These included but were not limited to:

• Violence. Andrew Jackson was just in general a violent man, suspected of several killings in duels and other all around brutish incidents.
• Possibly most famously, made several choices surrounding the Native Americans that would be considered very wrong and not accepted in modern times.
• Because he was so firm in his choices, and because he was a very self centered man, it led to a lot of bad choices being made by the government only because he insisted them to be made.
• Let personal feud get in the way of governing the country properly.

In the end most people would look back at Jackson's presidency and could reasonably claim he wasn't the best president by any means, but you can't argue against the fact that he did his share in shaping America.