Andrew Jackson

The history class started a new lesson on Andrew Jackson . The essential question  that summed up this lesson was, " Is Andrew Jackson's long-standing reputation as 'the people's president' deserved? Why? Why not? " to help better comprehend this question, the class was divided into  groups and each group was assinged a strategy  Andrew Jackson used during his presidency ruling. Other groups were assinged Indian removal or spoil system. The Indian removal was a law Jackson passed that removed the Native Americains from  the Southern states of America. The spoil system is practice where a political party gives government jobs to voters and supporters after electional victory.  My group chose the bank war as a topic which was about the United State's national bank. In the 1800s, United States' national  bank was the only bank. Since this was the only bank at the time, it controled credit and the economy by controlling trade. Jackson believed that the bank's great power would cause harm to the country  and  his goal was to create smaller banks. Jackson wanted to destroy the bank but then reflected because the bank was the only  bank that gave paper money actual value. To answer, the essential question, I do not think that Andrew Jackson's reputation should be deserved because he  teared members of his country apart when making the Native Americains move off the land. he did not acknowledge the fact that they did not know where they were going. Also, the spoil system  favorited only the loyal government supporters. Lastly,when Jackson  got rid of the first national bank, aware that it was going to cause an economic collapse
. To better describe the bank war my group created a project  and the link to the video is below.

http://www.prezi.com/jumzntdt6tyc/