The Terrible Presidency of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 and served until 1836. In the 1828 election Jackson was appealing to the public because he seemed to be on their level. He had grown up in a log cabin on the South Carolina frontier. He later became a successful lawyer, land speculator, and planter. He was a hard worker and people liked that about him. Jackson was also liked by the people of the United States because he was a war …

…economy’s plunge factories closed and people were left jobless and hungry. Martin Van Buren, Jackson’s vice president was elected and did nothing to fix the countries economic state. Finally in 1840 Jackson and Van Buren’s reign had ended and Harrison had moved into office to try to dig the country out of the whole Jackson had dug the country into. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Witt3 Works Cited Boyer, Paul. The American Nation. Austin, TX: Holt, 1998.