Andrew Jackson Failures
During Andrew Jackson's presidency, he won the affection of his peers by being previously known for being a man with the public's favor in mind and a military legend.
Jackson did not favor John C. Calhoun on basis of rumor pertaining to a friend of Jackson's wife and how the other cabinet wives had spread rumor and "snubbed" her. Andrew associated this treatment with that of his own wife and decide to clean out and refill his cabinet. The President also harbored bad feeling toward Henry Clay, whom had prevented Jackson from wining the previous election on rumor of a "corrupt bargain made between Clay and John Quincy Adams. One of Jacksons' decicive downfalls was his veto to a bill that would make a long road within the state of Kentucky. …show more content…
People that had settled there moved to other states and the movement for change excelled. Eventually, the "nullification" of the tariff was set in place by the state in order to overcome the hardship that the tariff had caused. This overrode Jackson and the cabinet's authority and can be seen as one of Jackson's presidential failures.
In Jackson's time of presidency, the topic of slavery was prominent. "The Nat Turner insurrection of August 1831, in a rural area of Virginia where the enslaved blacks greatly outnumbered free whites, panicked whites throughout the South." (Tindall, Kindle Page 379) With the insurrection carried out on whites in the south, I can only imagine how the slave owners had been overcome with fear that they were also in danger.
Although there was fear generated from the Nat Turner movement, there were planters' (those who owned the plantations) houses that incorporated slaves into their homes. "Many white slave owners in the upper South, who held far fewer slaves than their counterparts in the lower South, were so morally ambivalent about slavery that they adopted an attitude of paternalism toward slaves by incorporating them into their
Jackson did not favor John C. Calhoun on basis of rumor pertaining to a friend of Jackson's wife and how the other cabinet wives had spread rumor and "snubbed" her. Andrew associated this treatment with that of his own wife and decide to clean out and refill his cabinet. The President also harbored bad feeling toward Henry Clay, whom had prevented Jackson from wining the previous election on rumor of a "corrupt bargain made between Clay and John Quincy Adams. One of Jacksons' decicive downfalls was his veto to a bill that would make a long road within the state of Kentucky. …show more content…
People that had settled there moved to other states and the movement for change excelled. Eventually, the "nullification" of the tariff was set in place by the state in order to overcome the hardship that the tariff had caused. This overrode Jackson and the cabinet's authority and can be seen as one of Jackson's presidential failures.
In Jackson's time of presidency, the topic of slavery was prominent. "The Nat Turner insurrection of August 1831, in a rural area of Virginia where the enslaved blacks greatly outnumbered free whites, panicked whites throughout the South." (Tindall, Kindle Page 379) With the insurrection carried out on whites in the south, I can only imagine how the slave owners had been overcome with fear that they were also in danger.
Although there was fear generated from the Nat Turner movement, there were planters' (those who owned the plantations) houses that incorporated slaves into their homes. "Many white slave owners in the upper South, who held far fewer slaves than their counterparts in the lower South, were so morally ambivalent about slavery that they adopted an attitude of paternalism toward slaves by incorporating them into their