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- He was the son of a poor farmer from the South
- Orphaned at age 14
- Known for being a "Wild and Reckless Youth"
- Became a lawyer and plantation owner
- Quick temper contiued to get him into trouble
- Lived his life with two bullets in him
- Became a famous hero after leading armies in:
- War of 1812
- First Siminole War Against Siminole and Creek Indians
- Jackson became an Indian Fighter
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The Louisiana Purchace happened when Napolian was low on money because of a war France was currently in. Napolian decided it was best to sell all of the land to America. This nearly doubled the size of America.
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The Expedition, sent by Thomas Jefferson, was to explore the newly bought land from France. This land was un-explored and many things needed to be maped out. When Lewis and Clark retuned in 1806, many things were discovered.
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In the Election of 1824, there were four men running for presidency, two of wich were famous and well known. Jhon Adams, a Wealthy, Famous, Educated Elite, and Andrew Jackson, a Common man, were in the lead and Andrew had the most votes, but didn't have more than 50% of america's votes. The House of Representatives then got to choose who the president was going to be and they chose Adams.
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Jackson felt that the presedency was stolen and unfair, he decided to run again and this time was determined to win. The election was bitter, Adams, and Jackson both attacked where the heart is, they made personal attacks and thier wives were riddicaled. Jackson ran as "The People's Presedent", and he would be in favor of the common man, he won this election easily.
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The Indian Removal Act is a law passed by President Andrew Jackson to let the president negotiate for land with the Natives.
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Manifest Destiny, was the belife that the Europeans destiny was to obtain the land in America and move West.
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The Texas Annexation was a time in which Texas was admitted as the 29th state.
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Texas is accepted into the Union as the 28th state.
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The Mexican War started because there were more Europeans in the Mexican territory than there were Mexicans. The white men wanted to take the land from Mexican control, but Mexico didn't agree.
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The Donner Party was an event in which a train of wagons were delayed to california because of snow-storms where they had to take on cannibalism to survive.
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The California Gold Rush started after a working man in Sutter's Mill by the name of James Marshall struck flakes of gold in Northern California. This caused most of American men to go down to California and work for gold.
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The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was the treaty that ended the Mexican-American War.
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The 49rs are people who were in the California Goldrush, they used Boomtowns to live.
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The Comprimise of 1850 was a set of five bills which solved the four-year confrontation between slave and free states.
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Sighned by James Gadsden, the Gadsden Purchace was a purchace of land from Mexico that included California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, western Colorado.
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Bleeding Kansas was when the North and South had battles in Kansas Territory
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The Pony Express was a mail servace delivering mail, newspapers, and small packages.
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After the Gadsden Purchace, a Transcontinental Railroad is built from one side a sea to another sea.
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On the 14th of Febuary, 1912, America has obtained Arizona as the 48th state.
