Monday, October 26, 2009

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson has been called everything from a "King" to the "Common Man", personally, I juist think he was a prick, for lack of a better term. This man wanted the respect of a 'king', but had the personality of a rowdy, bar fighter. He didn't seem to have a rhyme or reason for anything he did in order to gain revenge on people, not did he have a decent reason to want revenge in the first place.


I really wish I could say more about this, but simply put...I just don't like him.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Jeffersonian Era

During 1800-1850, Thomas Jefferson had a very strong vision for America, but this time period wasn't very consistant with his vision. Jefferson was very strong for the rural areas and farmers, and wanted the single states governments to be stronger than the federal government. Outside of his vision, the small-town farmer steadily declined in importance and the federal government had a growing importance over the smaller state governments.

Outside of this, his being the first president to strongly advocate universal education, hince his founding of the University of Virgina, was the only point of his vision that really worked out the way I think he saw it. Mostly because it's the only part of his vision to not only work out, but to work out so that it is still a very large part of our country.