Andrew Jackson was a hardline autocrat who somehow slid into America’s most powerful singular office on the back of a rising populist revolution, armed with drink and their own vanity. Document 1 shows the transition from elections by the more knowledgeable legislature (elected by the populous) to a growing and uneducated populous. In Document 4, Jackson claims that the populous is better at governing and banking than professional bankers, and backs up his claim with negative evidence when, as shown in Document 7, he elected a known criminal to a post that controls international commerce, including America’s own imports and exports, who stole over $1,222,000 because he was early to jump on the campaign, another glaring example of the failings