Keep Andrew Jackson?

Nick Miele

12/15/14

Scp History 10

Keep Andrew Jackson?

I believe that andrew jacksons is one of the best u.s leaders of all time. His rezimay is outstanding. Some refer to him as king andrew the first, Even though he may have committed a few counts of patronage he was still the best candidate for the job. His experience level in  politics is unmatched by any of the people he ran against and was the creator of the democratic party.

Jackson was very well liked among white men. He is said to be a man of the people But in reality treated a lot of people poorly. He was a strong supporter of slavery and treated the native americans very bad. A lot of his supporters were rich businessmen and lawyers much like himself. He also came across as a blue collar man, He would hold his press conferences in the kitchen.

Jackson was known for giving his supporters government jobs. He did this more than every president in history. It Became one of his trademarks. He claimed he was replacing aristocrats with “the common man”

Another Thing he is famous for is the trail of tears. He forced all native americans to leave the east and shipped them out to the west. He only allowed them to take the clothes they had on there backs. This made him very unpopular among native americans.

I do believe that andrew jackson was a great leader. Like any powerful man he has his goods and his bads. I believe that his goods strongly outweighed his bads. He had a very successful career in office and I don't think anyone Should be able to replace such an american icon on the twenty dollar bill

Revolutions of !830 and 1848

"History has reached its turning point and failed to turn" -AJP Turner
I don't necessarily agree with his statement for a few reasons. Fist reason is the revolts where not all complete statements. With over fifty countries involved it is hard to say which ones were more successful then.

The Deciembrist revolt was the topic i had. this revolution was very unsuccessful. The revolutionary's plan was quickly put to an end by tsar nicholas. He then killed some of them to make an example. He was willing to destroy the life's of few to keep others in line. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/155016/Decembrist

I believe that some of the revolt were not completely failures. they go some of what they wanted but no revolt achieved there goals weather they were to become a democracy or to change leaders because the current one is to aggressive and rules in a very auto-cratic style. One revolution That was a complete failure was the deciembrist revolt that had taken place in Russia. The people wanted to remove their new leader(tsar Nicholas) from power. The wanted to put the past leaders brother into power because he was much more fair to the people. Tsar nicholas did not like the idea of this. He even killed some of the revolutionary's

During the polish revolution the polish people actually became self governed. They went a few months without the Russians. After two months the Russians regained power and took control of the revolutionary's. Although the polish didn't really accomplish anything in the long run they still managed to be on there own far a couple of months.

Finally there was the french revolution of 1848   "monarchy is falling; it is only necessary to push it; before the sun sets the republic will have triumphed" this is a quote from the primary reasorce It shows how desperate the revolting soldiers were. They were willing to die for their freedom. This shows you how bad a monarchy can be for the people of the country. Although it wasn't a complete they did accomplish shedding french blood in the name of freedom