Andrew Jackson's Influence On The American Political System

No one can argue that as a President, Jackson made mistakes. Despite some of his poor decisions such as the Indian Removal Act, Andrew Jackson influenced the American Political System in a positive way during his presidency majority of the time. Andrew Jackson influenced the political system by introducing the idea of the “corrupt bargain” to the national government, he vetoed a bill during The Bank War and he used his idea of Jacksonian Democracy with the rule of his people.
In consequence to the Indian Removal Act of 1832, human rights of Native Americans were violated. “They were not treated as human beings and even considered ‘subordinate’ to the United States by Andrew Jackson in his defense of the Removal Policy in 1832.” It was taking away
“Removal politics often left the relocated tribes more divided and violent then they had been than they had been before their move.” They later called the shift West the “Trail of Tears” due to all of the Indian devastation along the way. “The conditions of the journey were so brutal that more than 4,000 Cherokees died in temporary detention camps and in transit. The action, as well as the events leading up to it, clearly signaled that the Cherokee people, and Native Americans in general, had no real protection under the U.S. Constitution. Consequently, they had little opportunity or incentive to participate in the growing U.S. economy, despite having been successful trading partners of European merchants in the eighteenth century.” Andrew Jackson defended the Indian Removal Act by listing the advantages for Americans and Native Americans. Jackson believed that if the Native Americans moved west it would be a good economic opportunity for the American government. As you can see, the Indian Removal Act shows us that Andrew Jackson was not looking out for the best of the American