Two American President During the 1800s
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States. Unlike any other President he was more like one the common people. Andrew Jackson represented the common citizens and tried to keep too much power from the wealthy. You could say he was an everyday common man. He was the one who started the spoils system. The spoils system basically means that you can give out goverment jobs to who ever you want when your president, even if they are no qualifed for them. The spoils system will greatly affect our nation in the future. He is also responsible for the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act removed all indians from thier land into reservations. He went againts the supreme court in the case of Worcester vs Georgia. The supreme court ruled that Indians could not be taken out of their land. Inspite of how the Court ruled President Andrew Jackson had 15,000 Cherokee Indians moved from Georgia into reservations, which was knows as the Trail of Tears.
President Abraham Lincon
President Abraham Lincon was the sixteenth President of the Untied States. He was president during the Civil war. As you may know this puts alot of weight on your shoulders. It all started when he was elected president. The south was afraid if he became president that slavery would be abolished. Slavery was the souths way of life, so when Lincon was elected presiden they seceded from the nation and became the Confederacy. At first Licon's plan was to bring the south back to the Union, but his plans changed when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation Freed all slaves. Unfortunatley it did not free many, because the south had its own goverment, and they weren't going to listen to the north. Instead it served as a symbol that the war was being fought to end slavery. Soon a total of 200,000 African Americans inlisted in the Union army to fight for their freedom.
This Presidents of our past are the ones responsible for what our nation is today. Decisions were made that are responsible of what our contry is today. Without the people of the past we wouldn't be were we are now.
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