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Andrew Jackson Was Born
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. -
Andrew Jackson Enlist In Army
Jackson found renewed hope in the opportunities the war with Britain offered for the future of the United States as well as for him personally to turn around his fortune as Major General of the Tennessee Militia. -
Battle Of Horseshoe Bend
DescriptionThe Battle of Horseshoe Bend, was fought during the War of 1812 in the Mississippi Territory, now central Alabama. The militia was led by Andrew Jackson -
Battle Of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, and the United States Army under Major General Andrew Jackson. -
Election Of 1824
On February 9, 1825, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as president. However, no one had won a majority of the presidential electoral vote, and the 1824 election thus became the first (and, so far, only) election to be decided in the House of Representatives. Andrew Jackson felt he had been cheated because of the Corrupt Bargain that Adams made. -
Election Of 1828
The United States presidential election of 1828 held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828. It featured a re-match of the 1824 election, as President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party faced Andrew Jackson. However, this time now that if you were a white male over 21 you could vote, so Andrew Jackson swept the competition -
Indian Removal Act
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The act has been referred to as a genocide. -
Bank War
DescriptionThe Bank War refers to the political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The affair resulted in the destruction of the bank and its replacement by various state banks. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a United States sectional political crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. By 1828, South Carolina state politics increasingly organized around the tariff issue. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515, was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional.
