Andrew Jackson: The Settler's President

For the majority of the last few days, our class split up into six small groups and researched different topics to contribute to answering the question: s Andrew Jackson's long-standing reputation as "the people's president" deserved?  As a class, we focused on three of Jackson's largest involvements- the Spoils System, the Bank War, and my topic, the Indian Removal Act.  The Indian Removal Act was Jackson's moving of about 100,000 Southern Native Americans to the western part of the country, or present-day Oklahoma.  Jackson claimed that he was doing the tribes a favor, because he was trying to save them, but in reality, he was dooming them by giving them the choice to either move west to a foreign land with little resources, or stay in their homelands and abide by his rules, which included serving in the militia.  My group carefully analyzed a few sources about the Indian Removal Act and came up with an answer to the question: Jackson cared about his own American people, but did not regard the original Native Americans very much.