The Horrible Andrew Jackson

The question that we had to answer in class was "Was Andrew Jackson a people's president?" In class, my group was assigned Indian removal and our topic was mostly about Andrew Jackson and how he kicked them out of the land that he wanted to take over for the Americans to colonize. He did this by creating a deal with them. The deal was that they could either stay and pay taxes and fight for the American army, or they could leave. So most of the Indians chose to leave. They had to walk on the trail of tears. This was the road out west that they had to walk on. 80,000 Indians walked on it. 10,000 died and the road was 500 miles long. I personally believe that Andrew Jackson was not a people's person. He could of made a better deal with the Indians or he could of at least tried living with them instead of kicking them out. Jackson also created some prisons for the Indians and kept them in the jails for a long time with absolutely horrible living conditions. Andrew Jackson should of created a better system with the Indians instead of doing what he did. He was not very liked by the people.