Did anyone else watch this? I have to say that though it made him a slight bit more sympathetic and showed he did more good things than I gave him credit for, he was still a monster overall and at least as bad as Nixon in my opinion.
The Indian Removal: I still get pissed when people try to defend this as it was not him but his successor. It was him, it was clearly him and the fact it was him was an even larger betrayal. In additional to the genocidal action, I condemn him for riding complete roughshod over the Supreme Court in this matter.
The burning of the abolitionist pamphlets I never even knew about. I really like and respect John Adams. I get grief (OK deserved grief) for defending him even when the Alien and Sedition acts get brought up but really, don't you think Jackson's interfering with the mail and suppressing information was about as bad? He also seemed to do a lot very imperially. He ignore the other two branches of government. John Adams did not request the Alien and Sedition act and did not use them himself. He is guilty mostly of signing them into law. Jackson abridged our rights on his own and illegally.
He was a terrible president overall and his one good act was breaking the second Bank of the US in my opinion but I still think this ass needs to be removed from the $20.