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Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaws, Noth Carolina.
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Jackson joined the Continental Army as a courier when he was 13.
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Jackson lead forces like European Americans against the American Indians in effort to open native land for European American settlers.
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The American victory here succesfully drove the British completely out of Louisiana
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4 candidates were running, but since no one got the electoral majority of the vote, Henry Clay was disqualified. His voted then went to John Quincy Adams, making Adams president.
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This election was a rematch between President John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, the winner being Andrew Jackson.
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Jackson forced Indians to move west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
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This court case was about the Indians challenging Georgia to see if they really had the power to remove the Indians from their own lands.
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Jackson believed the banks concentrated too much economic power into the hands of a small monied elites way beyond the public's control.
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South Carolina threatened to secede if the federal government collected their tariff duties.
