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      President Andrew Jackson was the 

7th President of the United States. He 

was the dominant actor in American 

politics between Thomas Jefferson and 

Abraham Lincoln. Born to obscure 

parents and orphaned in youth, he was 

the first “self-made man” and the first 

westerner to reach the White House.

 The Jacksonian Democrats, included rich and poor, 

abolitionists and slaveholders, and came from all regions of 

the country. They were united by suspicion of special privilege 

and large business corporations, belief in freedom of economic 

opportunity and political freedom, the conviction that ordinary 

citizens could perform the tasks of government, and support 

for states’ rights. Jackson ran his administration according to 

such principles, as he employed the spoils system and rotated 

his appointees through offices, killed the second Bank of the 

United States, and preferred to leave local improvement 

projects to the states. Jackson did, however, also believe in 

the Union and the power of the presidency, which he utilized in 

the Cherokee removal , negotiating trade agreements with 

Britain and exacting reparations from France, and in facing 

down the Nullification Crisis.

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