Andrew Jackson’s Storied Life19:07•Andrew Jackson - The most controversial American of the 19th century•Loved / hated•Democratic hero / ill mannered, ill tempered autocrat •1st American president to be a child of the frontier, had a lot to do with native americans•hated banks and did his best to destroy bank of the US that Alexander Hamilton put in place in 1790sosaw bank as a tool for elites to monopolize wealth in the nation – populist •Jackson made his career on depriving Indians of their land, saw them as expendable & destined for extinction •In favor of moving Indians west and depriving them of home land even Cherokee who lived like their Georgia neighbors, wanted gold that was in their lands•Champion of white man’s democracy •Embraced slavery, didn’t want to change it at all, didn’t see it as a sin•Get rich by acquiring lands taken from Indians•Controversial President: some celebrate his democracy and independence others seen as monster•How he reflects his times and shaped his time••Daniel Boone•First frontier hero•1st
