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Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. His father died three weeks before Andrew was born, so andrew was fatherless
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led by Major General Andrew Jackson of Tennessee and saw him push south along the Coosa River. Reinforced in early March 1814, Jackson's command included a mix of Tennessee militia, the 39th US Infantry, as well as allied Cherokee and Lower Creek warriors.
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In December, the persistent Jackson followed, leading a small advance party of his troops to New Orleans, bu what was weird jacksons army were just a bunch of random people, slaves, farmers, but they still won the battle.
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The United States presidential election of 1824 was the 10th quadrennial presidential election, held from Tuesday, October 26, to Thursday, December 2, 1824.But later, the faction led by Andrew Jackson would evolve into the modern Democratic Party
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The 1828 presidential election was one of the dirtiest ever, and Jackson believed, with some reason, that his wife Rachel was driven to an early grave by charges of immorality.The election campaign included numerous personal attacks on each of the candidates.
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President Andrew Jackson, known today as the first "citizen president", personifies the American dream. Jackson's family history is filled with immigrants turned patriots, family loss and triumph
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The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress on May 28, 1830, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands. also known as the trail of tears
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In the court case Worcester v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1832 that the Cherokee Indians
Samuel Worcester, a missionary, defied Georgia through peaceful means to protest the state's handling of Cherokee lands. He was arrested several times as a result. With a team of lawyers, Worcester filed a lawsuit against the state that went all the way to the Supreme Court, where he finally won his case
Samuel Worcester
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The Bank War refers to the political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States (BUS) during the Andrew Jackson administration.
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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.
