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Jacksons Birth
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, to Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Scots-Irish colonists who emigrated from Ireland in 1765. Jackson’s birth came just three weeks after the sudden death of his father at the age of 29. Growing up in poverty in the Waxhaws wilderness, Jackson received an erratic education in the years before the Revolutionary War came to the Carolinas. -
Battle of Horesshoe Bend Revolution Army
Another fight between European Americans and American Indians for control of the Horseshoe Creek. Indians take a stand for their land. -
Jackson enlits in the revolution Army
As a boy of 13, during the Revolutionary War, Jackson took part in the Battle of ... In May 1814, Jackson was promoted to Major General in the regular army. -
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of New Orleans.
In the bloody Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson and a motley assortment of militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians and even pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way. -
Election of 1824
During the election Alexander Clay pursuaded or convinced other represenatives to vote for John Quincy Adams. Andrew Jackson called it "The Corrupt Bargian." -
Election of 1828
A rematch between former president John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson ends up winning in a landslide because he brings up how Adams won the last election. -
Indian Removal Act
Was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Worcester vs. Georgia
Was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute -
Nullification Crisis
Nullification Act
During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, it involved a confrination between South Carolina and the Federal Goverment because the Federal Goverment put a tarrif on manufaturing items. -
Bank War
Political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States (BUS) during the Andrew Jackson administration
