Andrew Jackson: Evil of the West

He made some terrible choices, which definitely outnumber the good ones. He forced tons of Native Americans out of their homes, he took tons of brilliant people out of office only because they were rich, and he hurt the economic future of the United States. This is why Andrew Jackson was a horrible president.

Andrew Jackson harshly forced Native Americans out of their homes. He started wars with some of the tribes in order to get them to move west, such as the Cherokees, 17,000 of which were forced west by the army. Black Hawk was an Indian Tribe chief, who led a war to keep from moving west, against the Americans. The Native Americans were forced west on the Trail of Tears, where many died. It was a harsh journey, where barely dressed Native Americans often froze to death. This a terrible choice made by our ex-president, Andrew Jackson.

One of Jacksons many other terrible choices was the spoils system. This allowed a president to replace government workers with people who were loyal to the office holder’s political party; whoever they want. This is terrible, because many qualified workers will lose their hard earned jobs. Also, the other half of the country will be ignored, because only one of the two political parties will be able to voice their opinions. Also, the new people will not have the experience that the old workers had, resulting in lower quality work being done by the new workers. Finally, frequent turnovers will result in instability. As soon as someone becomes used to their job, they will be fired and replaced. This is another bad choice as a result of Jackson’s presidency.

Thirdly, Jackson greatly damaged the economic future of the United States. This happened as a result of killing the national bank. He hated the bank itself, along with its president, Nicholas Biddle. He, along with America’s farmers, thought that the bank was unfair, because it favored rich people. Jackson thought he was being brilliant by signing the law “murdering” the national bank, but all he was really doing was asking for an economic depression.

As you can see, Jackson was not exactly our best president, perhaps our worst so far. He made tons of bad choices, including his Indian Policy, the Spoils System, and destroying the national bank. These three disasters are examples of his means of hurting our future as Americans. We can only hope that our next president will do a better job in office.