Author/historian Robert Vincent Remini argues that Andrew Jackson was a product of his age. Nothing more, nothing less. Andrew Jackson's hatred for the British was no less intense, and by-and-large, the native tribes too often sided with the British during the American Revolution and, subsequently, during the War of 1812. Native Americans of that period repeatedly visited death and destruction (i.e., the Ft Mims Massacre in 1813) on the settlers -- Jackson's neighbors and kin -- who dared to move west into the frontier regions of modern Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Originally Posted by I B HankeringI agree he was in part a product of his age, but that does not exonerate him. He was still wrong. And the other side of the issue would generally describe those "settlers" as treaty breaking "invaders".
Nor does his hatred of multiple groups justify his extreme abuse of the federal hiering process.