Andrew Martin

The Cherokees tried stopping the removal process by pointing at Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia, but Jackson remarked “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.” (Kurtz) In 1838 and 1839 as a part of President Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee Nation was forced to give up their tribal lands east of the Mississippi River, and were relocated in what is now Oklahoma. The journey made was called the Trail of Tears because of the hunger,…

James Knox Polk is regarded as the first dark horse president and was considered the last of the Jacksonian president to sit in the White House. He is regarded by many as the last strong president until the Civil War. James K Polk was born on November 2, 1795 in rural North Carolina where his family had moved from Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of ten children and his father always groomed him to take over the family farm but he proved too sickly and weak to handle the strenuous work. In 1806,…

One of the first things Jackson did when he entered office was created the spoils system, which ridded the cabinet or all non-Jackson supporters or in other words, members of the Whig party and replaced them with Jacksonian Democrats. Andrew Jackson was know for the amounts of bills that the vetoed but the most common veto was the Bank Bill. As a “supporter” of a small federal government Jackson did not support a Bank of the United States. (Document 6). Jackson wrote a note to Congress…

“Gattaca”, by Andrew Niccol, is a film about a genetically inferior man who assumes the identity of a superior one in order to succeed in his dreams of space travel. While some themes presented in Gattaca seem alarmingly similar to our present world, we are in fact, still far away from making Gattaca a reality. The parallels between genetic manipulation in Gattaca and our world show how we may be close to making Gattaca a reality while the themes of discrimination and human spirit prove that the…

The effects of the Trail of Tears When we think of the first people in America, whom do we think of? Of course, Christopher Columbus comes to mind. Yet, the first people on land were the native people. Native people were the first people to set foot on this soil, long before any white person. Regrettably, the federal government brutally attacked and removed from the Indians from homelands that they dearly loved. Native people was forced to walk thousands of miles to a specific place “Indian…

The citizens of Georgia were hungry for the gold which ran through Cherokee land, which made them desperate to remove the Cherokee. Southerners who wished to eliminate Native Americans from their homelands gave their support to Andrew Jackson, an army general who had led military operations against the Native Americans and a supporter of their removal. (History.com) When Jackson became president of the United States, he supported Georgia in their goal to remove the Cherokee. Figures…

The novel Killing Lincoln, written by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, portrays the steps leading up to the assassination of President Lincoln and the effects after. The author sequences the book in chronological arrangement through the historical events. Bill O’Reilly is a political television show host on the channel Fox News. O’ Reilly is an accomplished author; he has produced numerous historical novels. Also, the author majored in history and graduated from Harvard, so this knowledge makes…

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president(1829-1837) of the United States, played a huge factor in the development of America. Jackson the former founder of the Democratic Party(One of the two major political parties in the United States), become a democratic symbol for the country. Jackson ran two-terms as president, during his presidency Jackson extended executive powers and made Presidents role more powerful. Jackson was the first president not born in the United States, coming from another…

Martin Martin is an American sitcom that aired for five seasons on Fox from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997. Reflecting the rising popularity of the Fox network throughout the 1990s. Set in Detroit, the series stars Martin Lawrence in the role of Martin Payne, a jockey with a girlfriend named Gina Waters. As the series progressed, plotlines saw Martin eventually move on to become the host of the talk show Word on the Street, which aired on the small Detroit public-access television station…

candidates running for the Presidency. Andrew Jackson had the most votes, but did not have the majority. Due to this the House had to decided the winner of the election. The election was influence by manipulation. John Q. Adams became President and Clay was the Secretary of State. Jackson was very outraged and called the election the corrupt bargin. 2. In what ways was Andrew Jackson a new type of president? What were his followers called? How did they behave? -Andrew Jackson was the 7th…