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How democratic was Andrew Jackson? Andrew Jackson was very proud of his country. He believed that allmen were created equal and that anyone should be able to wark for the government. He also introduced much democracy to the united states durring his presidency. In this essay I will prove to you how Andrew Jackson made the United States more democratic.

I think that the views/actions of the native americans were a lot different from the views/actions of Andrew Jackson and other people in the government. I think that Andrew Jackson was trying to be democratic because most of "The People" wanted the Native Americans gone from where they were. And back then the democracy was run by rich, white, men. So In my opinion Jackson did not intend to hurt or kill so many of the native americans, he was jus doing what "the people" wanted him to do. Also document 11 proves that. Because even though Jackson was at war with the native americans he still adopted a native american child named Lyncoya because anyone that was asked to take care of him wanted him dead and he had no living relatives. This shows that even though the child was technicaly his enemy he still took him into his home because he did not want the child to die. This shows that his actions were not in spite of the indians, and he was just doing what he was required to doe as president of the United States of America.

But the native americans on the other hand beleived that they were ruthlessly removed from their homeland onto one reservation along with their rival tribes. The indians were right but they did not know jacksons intentions were not to hurt or to kill them. They thought that their views and actions were democratic, and they were, but not to the governments definition of democracy. They probably thought that Jackson should be impeached after he put them on the reservation.

I think that Jackson was wrong and that this could have been solved better but i under stand that if he did not do what "the people" wanted he would have been impeached.