Andrew Jackson Land Policy

Andrew Jackson was not a very well liked president to say the least. He was guilty of gaining his wealth using slave labor, mass killing of Native Americans, and forcing Supreme court to send the Cherokee Indians to the Trail of Tears. President Jackson was what you would call rough around the edges, he was in duals, chased wild women, and even married a woman who was not legally divorced. He did not take very well to authority, he was overbearing, arrogant, but the American people loved him. Some of the things that interested me were, President Jackson’s land policies and the bank war. Jackson’s biggest land policies most likely was the policy that pushed growth for the people was his want for an increase in the amount of land available for agriculture in a country where more than 70% of the work force was in farming. With this policy was a huge want to get rid of Indians allowing the white people to be able to have fertile land. They felt that the Indians were using to much of the land and that they had no right to the land. An Indian chief explained that “We must have a great deal of ground to live upon. A deer will serve us but a couple days, and a single deer must have a …show more content…
The Second Bank started in 1816, as a replacement to the First Bank of the United States, and the charter had expired in 1811. In 1832, Jackson had vetoed a bill that asked for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter, the renewal was still possible when the charter expired in 1836. So to prevent that from happening, he decided to get rid of the bank’s economic power. Jackson said that, starting October 1, 1833, federal funds wouldn’t be deposited in the Bank of the US. So, he began putting them in many state banks; by the end of 1833, 23 “pet banks” had been