evidence: Andrew Jackson was the first president from west of the Appalachian Mountains. He was the beneficiary and purported leader of a significant political movement later called "Jacksonian Democracy" to denote the change from gentry control of American politics to broader popular participation. As president, Jackson enlarged the power and scope of the office with the innovative use of the veto power. He earned plaudits for quashing a serious sectional threat to the American Union in the Nullification crisis of 1833, but his controversial program to relocate southeastern Indians to regions west of the Mississippi River, a policy known as Indian removal, evoked the condemnation of humanitarians at the time and tarnishes his reputation to this day. [...] Leaving behind Charleston’s expensive pastimes for more sedate Salisbury, North Carolina, Jackson resolved to become a lawyer. In the 1780s on the American frontier, the profession required more courage than erudition. Lawyers often had to face down prickly clients and pugnacious colleagues while pleading before makeshift courts. Legal training consisted of clerking duties that exposed a student to proper comportment as much as to statutes. Jackson performed such functions first for Spruce Macay and then John Stokes. In addition to gaining a friend in fellow student John McNairy, Jackson gained admittance to the North Carolina bar in September 1787.