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On March 15, 1767, Andrew Jackson was born in a log cabin at Waxhaws
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On March 27, 1814, US army men led by Andrew Jackson attacked Tallapoosa River in Alabama and defeated 1000 enemy warriors and gained the US 23 acres of new territory.
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On January 8, 1815, Andrew Jackson won the battle of New Orleans against the British, which ended the War of 1812 and made him a war hero.
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In 1824, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams ran for president in the Election of 1824, which John Quincy Adams won because he bargained with Henry Clay and gave him the spot of Secretary of State.
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In 1828, Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams and became the president of the US, which led to the formation of the Democratic and Republican political parties and the age of Jackson.
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In 1828, Congress passed a law raising the national tariff, which taxed imported goods.The southern states wanted to nullify the tariff because the tariff would hurt the southern economy and make them poor. This action of nullification sent the nation into a crisis, which in 1832 Jackson vowed to keep the Union preserved. This crisis ended in 1833 when Congress passed the Force Bill, which allowed Jackson to use military to enforce law.
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In 1830, Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which allowed the federal government to pay Natives to move west.
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In 1832, Jackson vetoed the renewal of the Bank declaring war on the bank of the US which he thought was against him. Jackson then decided to kill the bank by declaring it unconstitutional. The effect of Jackson's actions led to the Panic of 1837 and sent the nation into a economic depression where many people lost their jobs and became poor.
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In 1832, the Cherokee sued the state of Georgia in the Supreme Court case Worcester v.s. Georgia, which the court supported on the Native side, but couldn't enforce, so Jackson let Georgia do what it wanted and Georgia kicked them out.
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in 1838, the US sent Cherokee Indians west to Oklahoma on what is known as the Trail of Tears, which 1/4 of the Cherokees died while traveling on.
