After Jackson had served two terms as president, it was time for a knew president to be elected. The man who won the election was Martin Van Buren, the former Secretary of State. Like Jackson, president Van Buren valued the rights of individual people in the Unites States and so was against large monopolistic businesses squelching an individual's success.
Van Buren had many similarities to former president, but unlike him, Van Buren was against the use of slaves and the removal of Indians. But, because of pressures from Jackson and the people of the United States, Van Buren was unable to do anything about it. He allowed the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their home land to Oklahoma.
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