I have mixed feelings about Jackson. As some say, he did expand the voting base and he struck a blow against the planter Aristocracy that had been running the country. His treatment of the Indians though shows him in a different light. He certainly didn't extend the voting franchise to them. Thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court over the issue gives him an Imperial air. Moving the tribes to Oklahoma may have been a best of all possible outcomes sort of thing. There probably would have been a extermination of the Indians if they'd remained. There were deep divisions amongst the Indians over the issue. Some thought good riddance to bad rubbish and headed out to find the best land. Others accepted it as the only way out of a bad situation and
