Thursday, December 11, 2014

Spoils System

We've been learning about Andrew Jackson in class recently, and we learned that he has a reputation as "the people's president".  The essential question questioned his reputation, asking if it was deserved by him.  Our class broke up into six groups, two for each of the three topics to try to decide if Andrew Jackson deserved this reputation.  The three topics were the Bank War, Indian Removal, and Spoils System.  My group did research on the Spoils System, here is our presentation: