Andrew Jackson became the nation’s seventh president in 1828. He was—and still is—one of the country’s most controversial presidents. To his supporters, he was a war hero and a true man of the people. His presidency helped to make the United States more democratic. He challenged powerful elites and drove the expansion of the United States westward. But his critics charged that Jacksonian democracy benefited only his supporters. To beat his rivals, he was ruthless. He waged campaigns to remove Native Americans from their homes and limited the rights of African Americans.

Jackson’s career forces us to ask: What values do Americans hold dear? Did Jackson take the country in the right direction or the wrong one?

Democracy in America
The Declaration of Independence states that the government’s role is to secure the rights of the people: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Democracy, however, was not included among these rights. Many founders, such as Alexander Hamilton, did not believe democracy was necessarily a good thing. They feared that too much democracy would lead to tyranny—not from a king, but from the masses of ordinary people.

These founders wanted democracy, but not democracy as we think of it today. Yes, the founders wanted “the people” to elect their own representatives, but what they meant by “the people” was very limited. In early America, “the people” referred to a small group: white men who owned property.

North Carolina Emigrants: Poor White Folks. Source: Wikimedia Commons, James Henry Beard, Cincinnati Art Museum
White Americans who did not own land, however, wanted more democracy. They used what rights they had to vote in large numbers and participate in public demonstrations. As the nation’s population grew, so did this thirst for democracy. Political leaders of the time could not hold back the building desire for real democracy. More and more people wanted to be able to vote and have politicians listen to their concerns. This was especially true in the new states and territories in the west.

the beginning of the iditarod trail sled dog race. the iditarod trail sled dog race first ran to nome in 1973.   the trail they used is today known as the iditarod trail, first surveyed by the alaska road commission in 1908 and now one of the national historic trails as so designated by the congress of the united states.

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the children of nome were dying in january 1925. infected with diphtheria, they wheezed and gasped for air, and every day brought a new case of the lethal respiratory disease. nome’s lone physician, dr. curtis welch, feared an epidemic that could put the entire village of 1,400 at risk. he ordered a quarantine but knew that only an antitoxin serum could ward off the fast-spreading disease.the nearest batch of the life-saving medicine, however, rested more than 1,000 miles away in anchorage. nome’s ice-choked harbor made sea transport impossible, and open-cockpit airplanes could not fly in alaska’s subzero temperatures. with the nearest train station nearly 700 miles away in nenana, canine power offered nome its best hope for a speedy delivery.sled dogs regularly beat alaska’s snowy trails to deliver mail, and the territory’s governor, scott c. bone, recruited the best drivers and dog teams to stage a round-the-clock relay to transport the serum from nenana to nome. on the night of january 27, 1925, a train whistle pierced nenana’s stillness as it arrived with the precious cargo—a 20-pound package of serum wrapped in protective fur. musher “wild bill” shannon tied the parcel to his sled. as he gave the signal, the paws of shannon’s nine malamutes pounded the snow-packed trail on the first steps of a 674-mile “great race of mercy” through rugged wilderness, across frozen waterways and over treeless tundra.even by alaskan standards, this winter night packed extra bite, with temperatures plummeting to 60 degrees below zero fahrenheit. although every second was precious as the number of confirmed cases in nome mounted, shannon knew he needed to control his speed. if his dogs ran too fast and breathed too deeply in such frigid conditions, they could frost their lungs and die of exposure. although shannon ran next to the sled to raise his own body temperature, he still developed hypothermia and frostbite on the 52-mile leg to tolovana before handing off the serum to the second dog team.

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