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Jackson's Birth
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaws area. The Waxhaws is a geographical area on the border of North and South Carolina. He was born to Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. -
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Jackson enlists in Revolutionary Army
The Declaration of Independence was signed when young Andrew was nine years old and at thirteen he joined the Continental Army as a courier. Andrew Jackson was very brave to join in the Revolutionary army at such a young age. -
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Andrew Jackson took command of 2,000 men and the battle was fought on March 27, 1814, near a Creek village on the Horseshoe Bend of the Tallapoosa River. Jackson attacked with his men and nearly wiped out the entire Indian people. -
Battle of New Orleans
Major General Andrew Jackson led a small, poor equipped army to victory against 8,000 British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson became a hero. He had won the last major battle in the War of 1812. -
Election of 1824
In this election Andrew Jackson went against Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams and William Harris Crawford. Jackson got the most electoral votes and also won in popular votes, but Adams had made a deal with Henry Clay and in the end Adams got presidency. -
Election of 1828
Jackson is back, and he is running for president. In the election of 1828, Jackson runs against John Quincy Adams...again. In the end Andrew Jackson won by a landslide, and Adams was no longer president. -
Bank War
There was no exact date to when the Bank War first started, but it was in the year 1829. March 4, 1829, is when Jackson first got inaugrated. The bank war is the struggle between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle (Who was president of the Bank of the US). Andrew Jackson called this bank "the monster." The bank ceased to exist when its charter ran out in 1836. -
Indian Removal Act
Native Americans in the southeastern United States were told to trade their lands for land in the west, thereby freeing up land in the southeast for settlement, which was designed to push Native Americans off their tribal lands. Many Native Americans were forced into giving up their land. This later led to the trail of tears. -
Worcester vs. Ga
Samuel A. Worcester claimed that since Georgia had no power over the Cherokee land, Georgia had no right to persecute him. Worcester was tried but the Supreme Court overturned the conviction and ordered Georgia to release him and stop passing laws regulating Cherokee land. Georgia lost this case. -
Nullification Crisis
There was no exact date to when this took place. President Andrew Jackson was ready to assemble troops to enforce the federal laws, because of South Carolina making a threat that they would secede from the United States. South Carolina felt that they should not have to enforce laws created by Congress if they felt it was unconstitutional. And South Carolina felt that the tariff of 1832 was unconstitutional. John C. Calhoun didn't want that to happen so he tried to think of an alternative.
