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    Andrew Jackson

    President of the United States from 1829 to 1837

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  1. Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress.

    • Andrew Jackson's Early Life
    • Andrew Jackson's Military Career
    • Andrew Jackson in The White House
    • Bank of The United States and Crisis in South Carolina
    • Andrew Jackson's Legacy

    Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region on the border of North and South Carolina. The exact location of his birth is uncertain, and both states have claimed him as a native son; Jackson himself maintained he was from South Carolina. The son of Irish immigrants, Jackson received little formal schooling. The British invaded ...

    Andrew Jackson, who served as a major general in the War of 1812, commanded U.S. forces in a five-month campaign against the Creek Indians, allies of the British. After that campaign ended in a decisive American victory in the Battle of Tohopeka (or Horseshoe Bend) in Alabama in mid-1814, Jackson led American forces to victory over the British in t...

    Andrew Jackson won redemption four years later in an election that was characterized to an unusual degree by negative personal attacks. Jackson and his wife were accused of adultery on the basis that Rachel had not been legally divorced from her first husband when she married Jackson. Shortly after his victory in 1828, the shy and pious Rachel Jack...

    A major battle between the two emerging political parties involved the Bank of the United States, the charter of which was due to expire in 1832. Andrew Jackson and his supporters opposed the bank, seeing it as a privileged institution and the enemy of the common people; meanwhile, Clay and Webster led the argument in Congress for its recharter. In...

    In contrast to his strong stand against South Carolina, Andrew Jackson took no action after Georgia claimed millions of acres of land that had been guaranteed to the Cherokee Indians under federal law, and he declined to enforce a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Georgia had no authority over Native American tribal lands. In 1835, the Cherokees signe...

  2. Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about the life and achievements of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. He was a lawyer, a war hero, a national leader and a founder of the Democratic Party. He destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, supported individual liberty and migrated Native Americans.

  3. Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. More nearly than any of his predecessors,...

  4. A biography of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, who served from 1829 to 1837. Learn about his life, military career, political achievements, challenges, and legacy as a leader of the common man and a champion of the common cause.

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  6. 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.

  7. Learn about the life, achievements, and controversies of Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Explore his role in the War of 1812, the Bank War, the Indian Removal Act, and the transition from a republic to a democracy.

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