Andrew Jackson’s time as president would mark a major historical shift for the United States. ― Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White HouseĪndrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States, has been called the most important President between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Like us and our America, Jackson and his America achieved great things while committing grievous sins.” An enemy of Eastern financial elites and a relentless opponent of the Bank of the United States, which he believed to be a bastion of corruption, Jackson also promised to die, if necessary, to preserve the power and prestige of the central government. A sentimental man who rescued an Indian orphan on a battlefield to raise in his home, Jackson was responsible for the removal of Indian tribes from their ancestral lands. A champion of extending freedom and democracy to even the poorest of whites, Jackson was an unrepentant slaveholder.
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