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This 4 page paper examines some of the crises that Andrew Jackson faced as President, and argues that one’s view of whether or not he was great is strongly influenced by one’s beliefs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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debates that question. Discussion The answer seems to be yes and no, depending on ones value system. For those who favor capitalism and boundless expansion, he was a great President.
For those who value human rights, he was an unmitigated disaster. He not only owned slaves, but he was the one who ordered the Indian tribes "removed" from the East
and resettled on reservations in the West, an ordeal that cost thousands of lives. Jacksons policy was in line with U.S. policy that had been in place since Jeffersons administration;
that policy was to promote the assimilation of Indian peoples into white mainstream life by encouraging them to adopt white customs (Faragher et al, 2000). Those who didnt care to
give up their traditional ways were "removed to the new Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 280). In the Southeast, five tribes remained:
the "Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles"; the Cherokees had succeeded in assimilating almost completely into white society (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 280). They were located at the time
in northwest Georgia, where they farmed, ran successful businesses, lumber and grain mills, and plantations (Faragher et al, 2000). Some of them owned slaves and they intermarried with both blacks
and whites, creating an "influential group of mixed bloods within the Cherokee nation, some of whom were eager to accept white ways" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 281). They developed
an alphabet for their own language and published a newspaper in both English and Cherokee, a feat of which they were very proud (Faragher et al, 2000). In every way,
they were a thriving and remarkable egalitarian society (Faragher et al, 2000). Unfortunately, they were in possession of land that whites coveted; these same whites began pressuring the state legislatures
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