Was Andrew Jackson's Reputation Deserved?

The Essential Question of the Andrew Jackson lesson is, "Is Andrew Jackson's long-standing reputation as "the people's president" deserved? Why? Why not?" For this lesson, the class divided into 6 groups and 2 groups research one of the three topics. The topics were the Bank War, Indian Removal, and Spoils System. Four out of the six groups said that Jackson does not deserve the reputation as "the people's president". The other 2 groups said he did deserve it. During the Bank war, Jackson thought that the Bank of United States had too much power and could potentially control the whole economy. Jackson wanted to break the banks into smaller banks, so that the rich would not have all of the power. Jackson wanted to veto the charter, but the people were petrified that it would led to the economy to collapse. In this situation, he deserved the reputation as "the people's president". One of the situations where he does not deserve it is with the spoils system. The spoil system was when a political party gives government jobs to voters/supporters after an election victory. People were being given jobs based on their loyalty rather then their skill. He does not deserve the reputation in the case because he was a selfish man who only cared for the people who supported him and not the rest of the people. 
My group researched the Indian Removal. Here is our presentation:  

Rise of Democracy

The essential questions for the Rise of Democracy lesson is “How should we define democracy? How democratic was the United States in the early 1800s?” For this lesson, we stayed within the groups we were already sitting in and analyzed the documents together. We examined a painting, an article explaining the painting, voting charts 1 and 2, primary source quotes, and another primary source about the Dorr War. Finally, to show what we learned we created a poster. Here is our poster: