Andrew Jackson
About Andrew Jackson
The seventh President and first from the frontier. Jackson was a military hero from the Battle of New Orleans who appealed to the common man against elites. His presidency saw the forced removal of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears. Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, seeing it as a corrupt institution favoring the wealthy. He was the first president to use the veto extensively for political rather than constitutional reasons. Jackson profoundly shaped the modern Democratic Party.
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