Many Indians, however, didn't want to leave their beautiful ancestral land in Illinois for the barren land of Oklahoma and Kansas. Because of this, Jackson sent troops to push the Indians out by military force. This became known as the Black Hawk War, in which the Sauk and Fox Indians, led by Black Hawk, defended their ancestral land whilst being forced out. The U.S. Army pressured Black Hawk into the Wisconsin territory and killed 850 of his warriors at the Battle of Bad Axe. Jackson's Indian Removal Act caused this war to occur, so he was the cause of these Indian deaths. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 also led to the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation of the Indian tribes that wouldn't relocate by themselves, such as the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Indians. The Choctaw were removed first, then many, but not all Seminoles, then then Creeks, the Chickasaw, and lastly the Cherokee Indians. The Trail of Tears for the Cherokee Indians was a 1,200 mile long winter journey in which around 3,000 Indians died of starvation. These Indians were not legally removed, however, because Andrew Jackson had defied the Supreme Court ruling of Worcester v Georgia, which opposed the forced relocation of the Native American nations. This was the first and only time in history that a U.S. President has disobeyed a Supreme Court ruling, which would make Andrew Jackson an inadequate president of the U.S. Jackson's actions of Indian removal were ludicrous because they caused the deaths of thousands of Indians.
Not only did Andrew Jackson kill thousands of Indians, but he also destroyed the national bank, and in turn, the American Way. At the start of his second term, Jackson had one true goal: destroy the national bank. When the Second Bank of the United States' charter was about to expire, Nicholas Biddle, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster tried to get an early extension.