Born March 15, 1767 on the Carolina frontier, Andrew Jackson rose from poverty to politics after the War of 1812, where he gained national fame as a military hero. Jackson won the popular vote in the 1829 election and became the seventh president of the United States. As president, Jackson sought to be a representative of the common man. Jackson points out in his veto message of July 10, 1832 that: "It is deplorable that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes." Andrew Jackson implemented the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This act forced Native people to leave their homelands and move to lands west of the Mississippi River. They encountered a journey, called the Trail of Tears, where they traveled on foot to what would be their new homes, which transformed the lives of thousands of Native Americans. The president's intentions were to move all Native people west of the Mississippi River to open the land to American settlers. of the national policy that had been in force since 1790 [and beyond] a change in that policy.” The validity of this generalization can be highlighted from the moral, political, constitutional and practical concerns that shaped Indian national policy between 1789 and the mid-1830s. Andrew Jackson believed that the only way to save the natives from extinction was to remove them from their current homes and push them across the Mississippi River. “And when the removal was complete, he felt he had done a great service to the American people. He felt that he had followed the "dictates of humanity" and saved the Indians... middle of paper, which could not have happened if they had remained subject to state laws. Under the Jackson administration, changes shaped Indian national policy. Morally, Andrew Jackson rejected previous ideas that Native people would gradually assimilate into white culture and believed that removing Indians from their homes was the best answer for both Native people and Americans. Politically, before Jackson the treaties that protected the Natives went into effect until he changed those policies and broke those treaties, violating the United States Constitution. Thanks to Jackson's changes, the United States actually gained a huge amount of land. The removal of Indians west of the Mississippi River in 1830 changed the national policy in place when Jackson became president, as evidenced by the moral, political, constitutional, and practical concerns of national Indian policy.