Compare And Contrast Andrew Jackson And Woodrow Wilson

A Man of the People There have been 45 presidents in the history of the United States. With every new president comes a new set of problems or hot topics. Every president has to deal with domestic affairs in many different categories which include the economy, conservation, public relations, and many more. When comparing Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore Roosevelt many different opinions arise concerning who was the best and who best dealt with problems at home in America. Andrew Jackson dealt with the Indians and the national bank war, Roosevelt dealt with a thriving nation’s economic power issues, and Wilson although not immediately succeeding Roosevelt, dealt with the economy’s similar issue. Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and

The overall population of Indians in the US had been decreasing ever since the first explorers land in the new world carrying vicious diseases that the Indians were not immune to. Although overall the population was shrinking the density of Indians in the Southwest part of the United States was increasing. With more western settlers claiming land, Indians were forced to move to areas that other tribes had also fled to. “For many years, Jackson had protested the practice of treating with Indian tribes as if they were foreign nations” (Feller n.p.). When the Indians created somewhat of a society and started to claim land in states such as Georgia, state governments started to take matters into their own hands. Jackson saw this as an opportunity to do something about the Indian conflicts and decided to back the states and their jurisdiction against the Indian land claims. He accomplished this by not allowing the Federal Government to protect the Indians by removing treaties they had previously put in place. Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 which allowed him to move the Indian tribes outside of the state boundaries. This seemed to a solution to the problem which it was, but the act also caused chaos and devastation to the Indian tribes and their families. A famous tribe of Indians, the Cherokees, rejected the treaty and were forcefully moved by military forces.

Woodrow Wilson was our 28th president and served two terms from 1913 to 1920. Wilson, like Roosevelt, saw the role of the president to be protector of the people. He was progressive and also believed that the federal government should have control over the economy and businesses. The “New Freedom” was Wilson’s plan to help balance power among business and the economy (Brinkley 579). He gained support for his vision of reform when he promised to help the lower economic levels of society gain benefits that the rich already obtained. He first lowered tariffs with the underwood-Simmons Act because he believed that the tariffs were creating monopolies that hurt small businesses as well as consumers. Wilson then focused on solving an age old problem that was holding back the current economy. The public people were afraid of keep their money in the bank or investing it because in times of economic crisis many banks struggled severely. To combat this issue Wilson proposed a new federal banking system (Clements