From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program about American history for people learning English. I'm Steve Ember.Andrew Jackson was nearing the end of his presidency. He had served two terms. For many Americans, Jackson remained incredibly popular.They liked that a poor boy from the frontier who could barely read and write grew up to become president.Historian Daniel Feller is an expert on Andrew Jackson. He calls the president and war hero the ultimate American self-made man."He's a quintessentially American figure.You can't imagine anybody like this getting to be the head of a country at that time, certainly anywhere else but in the United States.And even in the United States it would've been unheard of just a few years before."Daniel Feller says Jackson often used government to help ordinary people instead of the rich and powerful.For this reason, many called him the "people's president."But not everyone agreed. His opponents said tyrants have always spoken in the name of the people.
