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FACT: Andrew Jackson represented a turning point in our country’s history. With his election as the 7th president, our country would be led for the first time by a man who was not a founding father. With Jackson, our country would start a new tradition of promoting men for the presidency who we thought were the most “elect-able” instead of the people who would be best for the job. On one hand, Andrew Jackson was considered the candidate of the common man who had 10,000 people attend his inauguration ceremony in Washington D.C. Yet he also did some horrible things, most notably forcing the Cherokee Tribe to walk the “Trail of Tears” in defiance of the Supreme Court.
DIRECTIONS
STEP 1: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING 3 QUESTIONS IN ONE MAIN POST USING AT LEAST 200 WORDS.
QUESTION #1: Do you feel President Jackson was a positive step forward for our country or a negative step backward?
QUESTION #2: Consider the attached political cartoon “King Andrew the First” in your answer. What is the cartoonist’s attitude towards Jackson? Positive or negative? Refer to an element of the cartoon in your answer.
QUESTION #3: All politicians have a voting base, i.e. a group of people who vote for someone because they identify with the candidate. Was Jackson a good representative of his voting base? What makes people vote for someone with whom they DO NOT identify?
STEP 2: PICK 2 CLASSMATES TO WHOM YOU WILL LEAVE RESPONSE POSTS USING THE SANDWICH FORMAT (EXPLAINED BELOW). RESPOND TO EACH CLASSMATE WITH A MINIMUM OF 75 WORDS PER RESPONSE.
(AGAIN, each of you are required to make a total of THREE posts…ONE main post at least 200 words long, and TWO additional posts of at least 75 words each responding to two of your classmates.)
- Remember that the word count for your Main Post must be at least 200 words.
- Remember that your word count for the responses is at least 75 words per post. Also, remember the three-part “sandwich” format:
- Start with a compliment to the classmate who left the Main Post
- Add in some new facts/observations of your own
- End with a question or two back to the original classmate
President Jackson’s decisiveness emulated that of a sovereign rather than the populist maverick many of his constituents saw him to be. He tried to abolish the Electoral College