Andrew Jackson: The Indian Defense Of The Common Man

In the election of 1824, candidates John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson did not gain enough electoral votes to win. In accordance with the constitution, the election was settled in the House, and to the people’s dismay, Henry Clay helped John Quincy Adams gain enough votes to become President, in what what later known by the Democrats as the “corrupt bargain.” A war hero and aristocrat from the agrarian state of Tennessee who liked to chew tobacco and duel with pistols, Andrew Jackson was particularly livid about the results of this election, considering he had won the popular vote. Andrew Jackson and his party, the Democratic Party, won in the election of 1828 and went on to radically alter the principles and functions of democratic government by championing the “common man” and taking a brutal stance towards the Native Americans.
Andrew Jackson was an extraordinary supporter
He claimed that the Indian Removal Act of 1830 was beneficial to both Americans and Indians. Americans, he said, could relieve themselves of these “savage hunters” and burgeon in “population, wealth, and power” if they agreed to his forcible removal of Indians. (On Indian Removal) However, to buttress his argument, he skillfully persuades Congress that Indian removal is also amazingly to their self-benefit as well. Resettlement would allows Indians to “pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions” (On Indian Removal). Jackson believed that Indians were unwilling to acclimatize to American culture and gives them a ghastly ultimatum: “utter annihilation” or kind “removal and settlement” (On Indian Removal). Unfortunately, the former was the de facto policy, and millions of Indians died as a result of this heinous law. Andrew Jackson openly and mercilessly oppressed and exterminated the native populations in the eastern U.S. and received the support of the whites