A national hero? Or public enemy number one? Historical figures are often controversial, but few were as deified or vilified in their lifetime as the seventh President of the United States. This is History vs. Andrew Jackson. “Order, order, hm, uh, what were we…ah yes, Mr. Jackson! You stand accused of degrading the office of the presidency, causing financial collapse and wanton cruelty against American Indians. How do you plead?” “Now, Your Honor, I am not a big city lawyer, but I do know a few things. And I know that President Jackson was a self-made frontiersman, a great general, a real man of the people.” “Your Honor, this ‘man of the people’ was a gambler, a drunk, and a brawler. Why, I’ve heard it said that he would fight at the drop of the hat and then drop the hat himself. I ask you, was such a man fit for the most distinguished office in the nation? Can we forget the debacle of his inauguration? Who ever heard of inviting a drunken mob into the White House? It took ages to get the upholstery clean.” “That drunken mob, sir, was the American people, and they deserve to celebrate their victory.” “Order, order! Now, did this celebration have pie?” “Very well. Mr. Jackson, is it not the case that immediately upon assuming office you introduced the spoils system, replacing hundreds of perfectly good federal employees with incompetent party loyalists?” “Your Honor, the President did no such thing. He tried to institute rotation in office to avoid any profiteering or funny business. It was the rest of the party who insisted on giving posts to their lackeys.” “But Mr. Jackson complied, did he not?” “Now, uh, see here.” “Moving on. Mr. Jackson, did you not help to cause the financial Panic of 1837, and the ensuing economic depression with your obsessive war against the Bank of the United States? Was not vetoing its reauthorization, as you did in 1832, an act of irresponsible populace pandering that made no economic sense?” “Your Honor, the gentleman has quite the imagination. That bank was just a way for rich Yanks to get richer. And all that money panic was caused when British banks raised interest rates and cut lending. To blame it on the President is preposterous, I say.” “But if Mr. Jackson had not destroyed the National Bank, it would have been able to lend to farmers and businesses when other credit dried up, would it not?” “Hm, this is all highly speculative. Can we move on?” “Certainly, Your Honor. We now come to Mr. Jackson’s most terrible offense: forcing entire tribes out of their native lands via the Indian Removal Act.” “I resent that accusation, sir. The U.S. of A. bought that land from the Indians fair and square.” “Do you call coercion and threats by a nation with a far more powerful army fair and square? Or signing a treaty for removing the Cherokee with a small group that didn’t include their actual leaders? They didn’t have time to properly supply themselves before the army came and forced them to march the Trail of Tears.” “Now, hold on a minute. This was all Van Buren’s doing after President Jackson left office.” “But Mr. Jackson laid the groundwork and made sure the treaty was ratified. All President Van Buren had to do afterwards was enforce it.” “Look here, Your Honor. Our government’s been purchasing Indian land since the beginning, and my client was negotiating these deals even before he was President. President Jackson truly believed it was best for the Indians to get compensated for their land and move out West, where there was plenty of space for them to keep living the way they were accustomed, rather than stick around and keep butting heads with the white settlers. Some of whom, I remind our court, wanted to exterminate them outright. It was a different time.” “And yet, even in this different time, there were many in Congress and even the Supreme Court who saw how wrong the Removal Act was and loudly opposed it, were there not?” “My client was under a great deal of pressure. I say, do you think it’s easy governing such a huge country and keeping the Union together, when states are fixing to nullify federal laws? President Jackson barely got South Carolina to back down over those import tariffs, and then Georgia had to go discover gold and start grabbing up Cherokee land. It was either get the Indians to move or get in another fight with a state government.” “So, you admit that Mr. Jackson sacrified moral principles to achieve some political goals?” “I do declare, show me one leader who hasn’t.” As societies change and morals evolve, yesterday’s hero may become tomorrow’s villain, or vice versa. History may be past, but our understanding of it is always on trial.
Fooled me with that Thomas Jefferson voice
I would really like to see this channel create a History vs. Philippe Petain.
The national bank is now the federal reserve to which the American people are in debt the tune of a $100,000,000,000,000
That’s 100 trillion dollars ++ which now becomes the debt that prohibits the USA treasury from printing our own money and enslaves all but the wealthiest globalists.
are you guys all teachers
He was my great great great great great great great uncle
Indian Removal Act was a fantastic policy. FACT.
Andrew Jackson, after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Native Americans, told them that, "The Supreme Court doesn't have an army; I do." Jackson acted against a Supreme Court decision to achieve his goal.
Bet
The judge sounds like Nappa
Why are you whispering, this isn’t NPR
When a guy tried to shoot Jackson, Jackson beat him nearly to death with his cane.
It is said that The Supreme Court ruled the removal of Native Americans unconstitutional. Jackson said for them to enforce their jurisdiction
So the Americans are the people who win, losers are not Americans?
“I killed the bank” Andrew Jackson’s last words.
i feel like the two andrews unfairly get too much hate
History VS Aaron Burr
"I killed the bank" his last words
You forgot how much of a badass he was
Andrew Jackson, the best candidate for the $3 bill
Ya cause that wasn't biased lol
This was great, thank you
You forgot of the "Peggy Eten" affer.
Oh, and he put
“Under God”
In the pledge.
And on every dollar of every worth.
And every coin.
Now that’s what I call against the 1st amendment.
I will forever support this man's presidency based solely on the fact that he killed the bank and brought freedom and prosperity to the American people by freeing them from the debt of the global banking cartel (at least until Wilson screwed us). This man is the only President in U.S. History who made good on the National Debt by paying it off in total.
History vs Stalin
"Sometimes the hardest decisions require the strongest wills"
not the president we deserved, but the president we needed
That lawyer and jury are getting a 7th grade social studies education
This was less "pros and cons of Andrew Jackson's reign" and more "things that were definitely Jackson's fault vs things that were only questionably Jackson's fault".
JACKSON WAS THE BEST !!!!!
Honestly I vote Democrat today because of the values of Andrew Jackson, the fist Democrat President
I want this series back 😭😭😭
this was very cringy
They should do Pancho Villa.
I would bet money that Pancho Villa will not be portrayed as a man of his time..
Just as a bandit…
Every solution breeds new problems
Do history vs. Wilson
The U.S of A
Jackson did NOTHING wrong
Ah yes, this comment section is gonna be interesting .
"He would fight at the drop of a hat, then drop the hat himself."
History vs. Margaret Thatcher
History vs. Muammar Gaddafi
History vs. Mikhail Gorbachev
loved it, you should make more like this
why does Andrew Jackson look like my grandma
PLEASE do an episode on Nestor Makhno.
Well, there is the first Democrat people 😂
history vs Margaret thatcher
Andrew Jackson saw he had to remove the Indians for the Country to grow.
Waging war on (((central banks))) is loyalty to humanity.
Andrew Jackson should be remembered as what he was…. a monster. "Fair and square" what a joke. He laid the ground work for thousands of natives to be marched to their deaths.
Can you even name a man who causes more kvetching?
I would like to see a history Vs Kaiser Wilhelm
The video did not mention the Jackson Administration contradicting Supreme Court Decision Worcester v. Georgia, which stated that the Native tribes had the right to retain their lands.
History v. Woodrow Wilson. I want it. I need it.
Please do one on quideazan ali jinnah
They're talking to a portrait.
Who saw Jackson's eyes blink on the picture?
Do Ivan the Terrible vs history
The Cherokee actually won a vote between Jackson and then Jackson wouldn't have it. He broke away from a vote!
TED-Ed: Andrew Jackson is history's most polarizing presidents!
Lyndon B. Johnson: hold my beer.
best democrat ever
What about the part where he outright defied a Supreme Court Ruling
To this day, Andrew Jackson has been the only president to get us out of debt.
Jackson ended the fed salute
Alex Glender and James Fester sound so similiar
this episode is shouty
4:23 so true though
History vs Deodoro please ;-;
"That drunken mob was the American people!"
That is the most American statement I've heard all day. I feel insulted and patriotic all at the same time
“I killed the bank”
-Andrew Jackson’s final words
weird the video didnt mentioned that the banks who wanted control and was stop by andrew jackson , which now today banks owned the world now.
God that southern accent please stop please
I would like to remind you that despite what happened with the trail of tears was horrible that the Indians who now live on those reservations do not live in Poverty but run successful casinos and convenience stores which has made them richer than most people anywhere else.
“Order order, now did this celebration have pie?”
Andrew Jackson: * fights the USA bank *
Also Andrew Jackson: s t o n k s
History vs. Martin Luther King Jr.
President Trump has a portrait of Andrew Jackson. As a Democrat I’m ashamed of him.
This Judge is really incompetent.
Andrews bodyguards were like a U.S. commanding officer. They’re not there for his safety, they’re there for yours.
Misunderstood Andrews
Replace Andrew Jackson on the note with Harriet Tubman!! This was supposed to happen in 2016!!!
I’ve only watched a few of your videos, but I have found them to be well balanced so far. I guess when no one is completely happy, you must be doing a good job. People are a mixed bag of pure motives and self interest. All we can hope is, when weighed on the scales of history, the good outweighs the bad.
Andrew Jackson is terrorist
In all honestly Andrew Jackson was pretty awesome
The national banks are what got us 25billion in debt
#keepjacksononthe20$
"It took ages to get the upholstery cleaned!"
The same will happen to Martin Luther King, John F kennedy and Bill Clinton. Perceptions will change.
Why didn't they continue this SERiES?
Cant wait for history against trump
“Show me one leader who hasn’t”
Changed my whole outlook
"Did this celebration have pie?" Lol.
History vs Donald Trump in the year 2040.
" I declare show me one leader who hasn't "
This is quite true.
Jackson did nothing wrong
Jackson was against the Rothschild syndicate
i’m just gonna say that the trail of tears will never change my negative view on jackson
History vs. Abraham Lincoln.
1:11 oh…that makes sense
cough cough
I'd take Andrew Jackson over Trump.
NOW I MAY NOT BE A BIG CITY LAWYER-
He's my favorite U.S. political figure after Washington and Hamilton. I love both Jackson and Hamilton so much.
I also love how much of an irony it is since they both stood for the polar opposites and that Monroe's favorite general who Hamilton detested ended up being a president. But both directly strengthened America as a country.
Hamilton was right that America will ultimately need a central and strong government and a strong bank surrounding it to support it's economy, while Jackson had the guts to subdue the bank when it was needed the most and initiated evacuating the native Indians on time where there could have been upcoming slaughter.
History vs Park Chung Hee, please. Park Chung Hee was the president of The Third Republic of Korea. He made the economic of ROK grew because during 1960s ROK was a poor country like Africa. And he had to be a dictator to helped the economic of ROK. So now, he maybe a national hero of ROK, or some people hate him because he was a dictator.