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Andrew Jackson- Autocratic Ruler

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Andrew Jackson Temperance into the political Arena list against the tribes in his home state of Tennessee and later in relation to the War of 1812 Andrew Jackson always swore that he was Logan's best friend and from an Indian perspective he was stop in that case loving them to death by the thousands he had made his political career all our national seen as the guy who did the Greeks and the British in the War of 1812  Jackson County tilted is the chief negotiator to play peace with Indians after the wars were over and he used those negotiations to force the Freaks first and then the Cherokees and then choctaws Mamoon chickasaws to surrender huge chunks of the southeast the Indians however retain settlements in the Southeast and over the next decade bilbies Holdings into thriving communities  me of the Indian leaders were play all the songs of women and white men on they learn to fathers cultures as well as their mothers cultures they learned the value of planning cotton and unflayed using clowns living in framed houses sending your kids to school what they seated in doing with the proof that these Native Americans were not a Vanishing right they were not going to disappear and the land that they were on was quite Valley oh because it could be used to produce a lot of wealth  well that inflamed passions in Southeastern State leaders in Georgia launcher determine campaign to confiscate Indian land and force them to the state the Georgians were successful in notification in a way that the South Carolina needs one.  The Georgians were able to take a federal power see in a federal treaty and basically just tear it up and throw it away Indian claiming to be part of the Cherokee government was to be arrested as a criminal that Georgia law would prevail character that used to be Cherokee and that nobody claiming to be the Cherokee government could even meet  so say begin season Cherokee property in Indian who complained with the beaten up by the white settlers or by the Georgia and if you complain to the courts Georgia courts will no longer accept the testimony of an Indian against a white person and Georgia basically unreleased formal and informal violence against anybody who try to stand away  there is never any doubt about Jackson he wants to tribes to move beyond the Mississippi out of the way of expanding white settlement in 1830 Congress pass the Removal Act which appropriates money to finance headlam negotiations with Southern tribes adding the power of the federal government to the state pressures the tribes were already old fashioned Indians would have gone to war over these guys hired lawyer all the way up to the Supreme Court turkey Nation versus Georgia ruled that Georgia was breaking US Constitution by trying to seize the Indian Land play Indians with a promise of the federal government George could do that Jackson was famous for saying I made his decision let him enforce it what's the sovereign state I cannot dictate to the Georgian my hands are just tied but I tell you what if you will voluntarily give up all your lands in South I'll give you other lands on the other side of the Mississippi where you can live all the Southeastern Indians were initially very resistant and trust and Jackson's promises and somebody hit the land on the other side Jackson was giving away their land without a by-your-leave this is very difficult for several of the tribes because they believe that the West Was the direction of death because of and so when a person dies their Spirit travel close to the Earth and moves on its way to the place of the dead and that place I'm from Mississippi and from the American South would be over Oklahoma and Kansas the very place that the United States called the Indian Territory the Choctaw Chickasaw did decide that the power of Licensing habitable and they would sign the Cherokees refuse to sign and they refused and refused find out the gun point above treaty was signed and they were shipped off on this so-called Trail of Tears we would show one out of every four being a queen with many of the Indians and able to slip we speak their language interpreter in the Smoky Mountain Country in May 1838 and witness the execution of the most brutal order in the history of America Ashanti helpless Cherokee arrest dragged from their homes and driven at Bayonet Point Into The Stockade I saw them loaded like at she in a 645 wagons start at work away Choctaw woman from Oklahoma he told the story that the when she was a young woman her grandmother was have all of these children around and she speaking Choctaw and she say not pose your eyes I'm going to take you on a journey and we're going to go back to the old Choctaw Nation in Mississippi and then she would describe that place and that time and then she would tell them story about Andrew Jackson the devil the person who had forced the Choctaw of out of Mississippi do it allowed those folks to shoot shakhtar on site and drive them out and S you heard these stories it seemed to her that Andrew Jack and had been president just yesterday long time we travel on way to new land people feel bad when they leave old women cry and make sad whales Children Cry and many men cry and all look sad like when friends die but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on going towards West many days past dude I very much we very close by trim so Ashley grew up American history class she learned only that Andrew Jackson president in 1830 for her people for her family for her grandmother and for her this is an event that occurred yesterday not so long ago and that it Effexor Halo 4 Indian people things that happened to you and your people you take it very personally whole Indian nation of melted away like snowballs in the Sun the white man's name of our people accept those wrongly recorded shadow of their former greatness good hope that the white men would not be willing to travel the on the mountain now that hope is gone people will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant Wilderness there they will be permitted utility again do you think sea Banners at the same greedy host  in his first term in office Jackson is on that he is quite willing to use federal power against rebellious stage and against the tribes but on economic issues he takes a different stats 1832 Jackson was up for reelection and Henry Clay thought he could defeat him is he had a really strong issue  the most attracted issue to Clay was the turn up the bank of the United States was a huge fan Institution for the time with the only chartered by the federal government branch of the government is today it also operated as a private banquet Prime responsibilities to make a profit for its shareholders 18 for 20 years which method is Charter Ahern 1836  the friends of the bank which were basically included Northeastern murchinson and other Bankers wanted the banks Charter to be no absolutely reason to agitate this issue In 1832 that was a little bit early but clay figured that the Congress and the president refused to renew the charter who played could use that as an issue president play of course never quite got the hang of the populace that kind of politics what he forgot was it for every banker there was a thousand people who had a reason to dislike the Packers  the bill to renew the charter of the bank of the United State passes Congress and lands on Andrew Jackson's desk on the 4th of July 1832 just as the political campaign for his reelection and heating up Jackson took wait to think about it and composed a blistering veto which no one expected him to write in which he didn't what's the bank of the United States as an engine of aristocracy he said that the bank was mostly owned by British Aristocrats and that it was being used to control the American economy and enslave the average American Farmer by manipulating prices biman relating the value of paper money and by interfering with the election of the people whom the average American wanted to elect namely Andrew extinctions and Society will always exist under every just government equality of talent of Education or a wealth cannot be produce Human Institution but when the laws undertake to add these natural and just advantages artificial distinction to make the rich richer The Humble members of society the farmers mechanics and neighbors who have neither the time nor the means of securing lightsabers to them how to write complain of the Injustice of their government there are no necessary evils in government its evils exist only in its abusive if it would find itself to equal protection and as Heaven does its ratings shower it's favors or like on the high in the low the rich and the poor it would be a nun in the act before me there seems to be a wide and unnecessary departure from the you just principle National League Hall and horrified that the president United States would be stirring up vulgar popular passions with this kind stop class Warfare but Jackson did it and he did it with magnificent success and won the election turn off 1832 with a greater percentage of the vote then he'd wanted the first time  Jackson's enemies in the National Republican party maybe put they don't know how to respond to his tactics he decided that the bank was using his millions to foment political opposition to Jackson YouTube a bride congressman and editors into coming out to take a probank position so that the bank could be recharged can an impasse over a second so in order to prevent that from happening Jackson decided to crush them on Burbank Jackson cannot legally abolish the institution before its Charter expired so instead he decides to weaken it Charter said that the bank had the right to hold all the government's money unless the Secretary of the Treasury decided that it was how longer safe well Jackson told his Secretary of the Treasury to declare that the money was not safe in the Bank of the United States and to pull out the money well the man thought he was in office to follow his own conscience rather than the orders of Andrew Jackson and he so Jackson said listen you working for me you're not working for your conscience out of here and he was fired was not until his turn nominee to become Secretary of the Treasury Rodger taunting that he found somebody who would withdraw all the United States how does back in the United States and then place them in banks that were friendlier to the Jacksonian interest National Republicans and Son jacksonians were concerned  Jackson's forceful Champlain tyrannical tactic helped Galvanize the opposition by made 18 pennies and the wig had been the name of the party in England who had always resisted the Power King so they call himself wigs in America because they were resisting time Jackson running Canada from local elections surprisingly well and so strenk what happened as a result of Jackson attack on the bank was that the United States became polarized  the two part differ from one another in their constituencies the type of leaders they attract and in their philosophies taking the economy became the pivotal issue of all the American pop do we support a bank of the United States federal grants to internal improvements high as possible Jackson becomes the symbol for things that are happening around him he create my own someone needs to ask a very secure he becomes the how to take off a morning Aristocrat who's not a man of the people inventions but he comes along Jackson decides to step down after two terms in office his hand-picked choice for the Democratic nomination is Martin Van Buren Tristin Mays in Destin Kenny Hardy self-reliant to physically tough man who carried play some Avenues body from the jewels you'd fought in was a massive scar tissue from head to toe could have looked at this round sweet-scented New York country lawyer and seen a man of the Same Soul buddy did Van Buren was an absolute Master at at pleasing people and at ingratiating himself even with his enemies and the one thing that Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren  believed in to the core of your being turn on Portals of a strong party organization in what came to be called the Democratic Party  in 1830 selection the Whigs nominate three regional cabin Daniel Webster representing the Northeast Hugh Lawson white Tennessee and William Henry Harrison middle States Party leaders hope that the three candidates will get enough votes to deny Van Buren the majority and throw the election into the House of Representatives you don't come across Van Buren came into office in. Very high Prosperity that Percy Jackson stop was the result of Brilliance of Andrew Jackson's Administration but was a great big butt in 1837 right after Van Buren elected and price of cotton collapse price of land collapsed by the slaves class and there was basically a rip of the economic disaster of 1819 recovered a little bit they crashed again in 1839 so its up economic collapse  like any self-respecting political party the Whigs and the Democrats blame each other the wig look this is a result of all that terrible monkey with the currency in attacking the banks Van Buren and the Jackson said to bankers and the conspirators still have their hands around the throat of the American economy and we have got to completely divorce between the banks and government in order to save the country the president's policy of creating infinite treasury was not passed until the very end of his administration everybody was bloody and exhausted and the Whigs were able to use this issue very effectively in the in the election 1840 40 was it showed that the wings and learn to use the weapons of their enemies  when the week in the late 1830s and 1840s begin to realize set they cannot anymore operate at a party of the elites is a party without a mass popular Bass into the center over and over again Republican party after the Civil War will do the same sort of thing that we Publican party the 1950 the American debate techniques of popular democracy where the principles behind it convention to nominate their candidate they have a National Convention to ratify his number create a popular campaign goodmark by on a democratic journalist that said that William Henry Harrison was really not a Haitian to be taken very seriously if you gave me the choice he would go back to his log cabin and and sit by the fire and done I read a book and drink a hard cider for the rest of his life and the Whigs although the in effect there really the party the rich they saw Brilliance for the wonderful opportunity that this had given them to reach out to voters who were struggling with low prices and joblessness MDOT economic distress if you will election so I can paint as a man of the people then you find yourself a present whom you can imagine might have lived in a log how you portray him you make him up we always make up our Christmas in the campaign stretch up the business even from the champion forward the Democrats I'm a little defense against the reality of the depression and the Whigs folksy campaign tactics um crap had mastered first they were the ones who had perfected the technique for the Torchlight parade and I thought that it was sort of earthquakes to be pulling the wool over people's eyes by using this kind of rigmarole William Henry Harrison Virginia Harrison wins the presidency by a comfortable margin but doesn't live long enough to leave a lasting impression he dies of pneumonia only a month taking office Vice President John Tyler of Virginia now elevated to the top spot is it fairly recent convert to the car's although he does polish Van Buren Independent Treasury System and raise tariffs raised several internal improvements and refuses to reconstitute the National Bank when does the first half of the 19th century ends on new political alignment begins to emerge linking aristocratic conservative Southern wigs with a party of Jackson the party turn never disappear he was a man of the people a Democrat a populist who was also accused of being a tyrant and who was who Italy determined to have his own way in his own Administration and would not be dictated to by anybody he was a fighter who thought he was a man of Peace he was a intensely concerned about the virtue and accused him of the attacks on the Constitution when the worst possible kinds of crimes he claimed love the Indians and yes the Indian complained bitterly about his policies and short he's an intensely contradictory figure that brings in the contradictions of the whole American people in his ear that I find him very very fascinating if not always very admirable The Unfinished Nation 52 part American history series for more information about this program and a company materials call +1-800-576-2988 or visit us online at are you ww.org

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