Andrew Jackson Toughness

Andrew Jackson can be considered to be one of History's best and worst people. Jackson was born in 1767 and died in 1845. Before he was a president, he was a military leader who served to protect the people of America. Because of his toughness and heroic military leadership his troops respectfully nicknamed Jackson, “Old Hickory” to show how tough he is. He later ran for president and lost to John Quincy Adams. However, he won the following election of 1828 and the land requirement to vote was eliminated. This made it so that more common people could vote for a president; it was the most democratic election the United States had had at the time. Jackson would then go on to eliminate further conflicts with Native Americans, get rid of the 2nd

By doing this he potentially saved many people from further attacks from the Creek tribe. Because of this battle against the Creek, Jackson's men honored his perseverance to not accept defeat and his toughness by nicknaming him “Old Hickory” (“Andrew Jackson” 2-3). After the War of 1812, Jackson went to his plantation but soon went back to the military after Indians were performing raids along the southern frontier. The name of the tribe that performed these raids from Florida were called the Seminole Indians. Jackson decided that to stop the raids for good he must invade Florida (a Spanish colony at the time) and stop the Seminole Indians. Jackson invaded Florida and got rid of Spanish authority. Due to Jackson’s actions, Spain sold Florida to the United States. This was truly significant for the United States, as Jackson played a huge role in gaining Florida for the United States. Spain agreed to sell Florida to the United States for $5 million, a price well worth the effort. Jackson served as the governor of Florida for a few months then left (“Andrew Jackson” 3). It was because of Jackson’s great military career that the United States has Florida today (Lindsey

Jackson responded to the people of South Carolina, “The law of the United States must be executed… disunion by armed force us treason.” (“Andrew Jackson” 6). Jackson was given permission by congress to use military force in South Carolina because they refused to obey the law. A compromise was also made to the tariff that South Carolina nullified. South Carolina accepted compromise and repealed the nullification. Jackson prevented a crisis and established that federal law ruled over state law. The question of whether federal government had more power than state government would cause more problems in the future for the United States with slavery, and more recently gay marriage. However Andrew Jackson tried to establish early on in American history that the federal government had more power, and if people accepted this, many problems could have been avoided with the advice of Jackson (“Andrew Jackson” 6).
Jackson also had many other notable achievements that are not mentioned as often. Jackson was the first President to make treaties in Asia with Cochin-China, Siam, and Turkey. Jackson reopened trade to the British West Indies. Jackson was also able to get France to pay off the debt they owed America for destroying American property in the Napoleonic Wars (“Andrew Jackson” 6). One of Jackson’s most notable accomplishments when he was in office was that, he Veno