This 11-slide illustrative PowerPoint teaches students about Andrew Jackson's presidency. It invites students to debate whether his actions as president (such as the spoils system, nominating conventions, issue of slavery, bank war, & Indian Removal Act) did OR did not reflect the spirit of democracy. At the end, students are ask to write a protest letter and/or a journal entry about the Indian Removal Act.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
