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Andrew Jackson was a slave owner. He owned nearly 100 slaves on his plantation in Tennessee. He was popular for many reasons, but his defeat of the British and his part of opening up extensive tracts of valuable Indian land for white settlement were the the most valuable to him politically. Jackson was two faced with the Indians. He assured Indians that they could only be removed voluntarily, yet he sent the military in to force them west. Jackson stood up to South Carolina representatives when they did not want federal tariffs increased in 1824. When Congress raised the duty rates 1828, South Carolina tried to pass nullification in a legislative publication known as the "South Carolina Exposition and Protest". South Car