PragerU Teaches Us About Andrew Jackson, 'The People's President'

Wait, Andrew Jackson, the people's president. That sounds right up my alley. Andrew Jackson, the people's president. Let's do another PragerU reaction. Let's go. No American president has been more beloved and reviled than Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. This was as true during his own day as it is in ours. Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina on March 15th, 1767. He was barely 10 years old when the American Revolution broke out. The war claimed the lives of his two brothers and his mother, leaving Jackson orphaned, alone, and with a bitter hatred for all things British. In time, he would get his revenge. Tall, with sharp features topped by a thatch of red hair, Jackson always made an impression. In 1788, after a brief study of the law, he wangled an appointment as a district attorney in Tennessee, then known as the Southwest Territories, began investing in land and slaves and earned so nonchalantly began investing in land and slaves so nonchalantly this guy was so awesome he was so awesome so handsome and also he owned about a hundred million slaves an appointment as major general of the Tennessee militia though he had no formal military training he was a natural leader the men under his command would follow him anywhere and if they didn't he might hang them he got you're really not convincing me that this guy was the people's president you're fought numerous duels he killed a man charles dickinson in one that was jackson as jackson's that was jack you're really not making him seem very likable so far it's like he was a slaver he would he would hang people for disagreeing with him and he killed a man in a duel for probably some dumb ---- hey you're not you're not really convincing me even if i was a conservative right now i'd be like wait what the **** investments and military reputation advanced so did his political interests he served in congress when tennessee became a state in 1796 and later briefly a senator his politics were decidedly jeffersonian he believed that owning land was the only real wealth that industry commerce and banking were financial traps that ultimately benefited the rich at the expense of everyone else in 1812 a new here's the question where did the land come from you know where did where did it come from did other people own the land did they need to be killed or gotten rid of to take that land was that it i wonder if that's that's kind of being left out here the war broke out between the united states and great britain the conflict was a disaster in almost every respect for the ill-prepared americans but it ended on a high note thanks to jackson sporting the nickname old hickory hickory being a notoriously hardwood and commanding a hastily assembled army at new orleans jackson won a terrific victory over a british invasion force in 1815 that victory made jackson the most celebrated man in america by 1824 jackson was ready for a run at the presidency his two most serious opponents were the speaker of the house henry clay and the secretary of state john quincy adams jackson won the popular vote but did not secure a majority in the electoral college which according to the constitution threw the election into the house of representatives there clay's sudden endorsement of adams swung the chamber and the presidency to adams an infuriated jackson convinced that adams and clay had colluded against him in a corrupt bargain declared his intention to run again in 1828 this time he beat adams in a land you know we're about halfway through now and i have not seen anything about him being good slide as president he applied his characteristic ruthlessness to the federal budget slashing infrastructure projects he did not someone said that he won that battle after the war ended and yeah that's a pretty big thing to leave out i think believe were the province of the national government when the national bank came up for recharter in 1832 he vetoed it jackson who harbored a lifelong distrust of bankers insisted that the nation's assets should be distributed to financial institutions throughout the united states rather than concentrated in one location was he right no this decision led to the financial depression of 1837 jackson never doubted himself wait so he caused a depression as well is he supposed to be pro jackson or anti jackson that was jackson old hickory's most controversial that was just jackson decision came in 1830 the issue was tariffs south carolina wait wait hold on hold on that's his most controversial decision old hickory's most controversial that was his most controversial decision that raising tariffs not like deporting even even like indians who had treaties with the us and who were allied with them to force them out to give their their land to um genocidal white people not that just raising a tariff that was his most controversial decision that's it are you sure about that i don't think so decision came in 1830 the issue was tariffs south carolina represented by jackson's own vice president john calhoun insisted that tariffs be lowered because they favored manufacturing and commercial interests at the expense of southern plantations calhoun assumed jackson a southern planter himself would agree otherwise calhoun warned south carolina would assert its state sovereignty and nullify the collection of federal tariffs within its boundaries but jackson regarded south carolina's nullification threat as an attack on the constitution and on his authority as president the states had voted themselves into a federal union in 1788 jackson insisted and no single state or group of states could defy it back down or face the wrath of the united states military jackson told south carolina he even threatened to hang the first man of them i can get my hands on to the first tree i can find south carolina backed down significant as jackson's triumph was at the time it was even more so 30 years later it bolstered holy ---- they literally don't even mention um that he's a native american genocide which set a precedent which set the for pretty much everyone who came next president lincoln's argument that the southern states had no where's the people's part institutional right you would think they would talk about him like massacring native americans because he believed that white men had a divine right to take their land i would have think that would be the people's president the white people's president but they're not even bringing that up secede from the union like his whole thing like his whole philosophy was white men should have land and obviously the white men to have land they got to kill the people who are on it if jackson believed there could only be one national authority within america's borders where did that leave the indian tribes and their separate no place good in 1830 jackson relentlessly pushed an indian removal bill through congress requiring the cherokee and other tribes in georgia alabama and florida to emigrate beyond the the cherokee appealed to the united states supreme court and won but jackson waved away the court's authority and forced the tribes westward in a dreary exodus is this supposed to be pro jackson or anti jackson that became known as i think i am pretty sure what's going to happen in the next 30 seconds is they're going to reveal that he was a democrat there's like this insane documentary by dinesh d'souza where he tries to frame like jackson is like the worst person in the entire world and then at the end it's like he was a democrat and that's why we need to oppose the democrats today like the only reason like this is they make him look awful here obviously they make him look like incompetent brutal genocidal moron and the only reason that i can think that that would be the case is because they want us to reveal at the end that he they want to reveal it and he was a democrat so the democrats are bad right but if they don't reveal that then it's like what is this trail of tears that was jackson judge jackson favorably or harshly jackson by the way wouldn't care but no one can deny the outsized role he plays in american history i'm alan gelso distinguished research scholar in the james madison program at princeton university that's that's the best you got you're a distinguished scholar whatever what the **** that's it for prager university like i i guess like the point of existing is not to do good things or anything the point of existing is just like be powerful famous and well known that's the message that i get from that video it's like the guys like every two seconds jackson murdered these people jackson um owned slaves jackson genocided native americans that was jackson he really played an important role in our history though and that in of itself is good that was just bizarre i don't even understand what the **** that was man that was pointless like a prager you video to be just completely devoid of like any any sort of overt propagandistic messaging where they actually make the subject of the video seem terrible that's a first for me