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Andrew jacksons birth
Andrew jackson was born in a log cabin on the frontier between the carolinas and was given birth to by Andrew jackson and his wife Elizabeth jackson, and was also born 3 weeks after his fathers sudden death. -
Enlist in revolutionary war
During the american revolutionary war, andrew jackson joined a local miltia as a corrier at the age of 13. Jacksons oldest brother hughes dies of exaustion and jackson and his brother robert are captured by the british and nearly starve to death as prisoners. -
Battle of horseshoe bend
United States forces and Indian allies under Colonel Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War. -
Battle of New Orleans
The battle of new orleans was the the final major battle of the war of 1812. American forces comanded by general andrew jackson defeated an invading british army in intent on sezing new orleans and territory the united states had aqquired from the louisiana purchase. Finally it result in andrew jackson being presented as a hero. -
Election of 1824
On Febuary 9th John Quincy Adams was elected president after the elction had been decided by the house of representatives. John Quincy Adams had gotten the most votes in comparison to the remain opponents. -
Election of 1828
The election of 1828 facoured a rematch between John Quincy Adams and the runner up Andrew Jackson in the Election of 1824. With no other major candidates Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams and the democratic party merged its strength from the existing supporters of Jackson -
Indian removal act
The Removal Act was strongly supported in the South, where states were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized Tribes. -
The Nullification crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina. -
Worcester vs Georgia
In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
constituted a nation holding distinct sovereign powers. Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast. -
The Bank war
Andrew jackson disliked the ank because he felt it was to powerfull and was not beneficial to the southerners.He returned unsigned, with his objections, a bill that extended the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, due to expire in 1836, for another fifteen years. As Jackson drily noted, the bill was presented to him on the Fourth of July, a day freighted with portent
