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Jackson's Birth
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. His was born along the South/North Carolina border in Waxhaws, NC to Scottish and Irish parents. -
Jackson Joins the Army
Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army when he was 13. He fought in the Revolutionary War and was at one point in a British prisoner of war camp. During this time, Jackson recieved a scar from a British officer when he refused to clean the officer's boots. -
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was fought during the War of 1812. United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated a Native American tribe known by the U.S. as the Red Sticks. The battle got its name becuase it was fought along a bend in the Tallapoosa River that resembles a horseshoe. -
Battle of New Orleans
Despite the war of 1812 having been ended by a treaty on December 24, 1814, on January 8, 1815, the two sides met in New Orleans. Andrew Jackson and his army of soldiers, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians, and pirates fought the superior British army and won. Britain had 2,000 casualties while the U.S. had less than 100. -
Election of 1824
There were five candidates running in the Election of 1824; Andrew Jackson, John Quincey Adams, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and William H. Crawford. Jackson won the popular vote, but no one won the electoral vote. Clay bribed his supporters with job offers to support Adams so that Adams would win and make Clay president in a later election. Adams won and became the 6th president of the United States. -
Election of 1828
In the Election of 1828, Andrew Jackson ran against John Quincey Adams for U.S. president. It is considered to be one of the dirtiest elections in U.S. history. Adams released ads against Jackson saying that he was immoral for marrying his wife before she was completely divorced, causing her to die of a heart attack from stress. -
Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson bevlieved that the government had the power to regulate where Indians lived. He started having them removed from the South-East area of the U.S. The Indian Removal Act forced all Indians to move west of the Mississippi River. -
Worcester V. Georgia
The Cherokee tribe sued the state of Georgia in 1832 for their right to keep their land. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which sided with the Cherokee and said that the federal government is the only one that can seize native lands. -
Nullification Crisis
The Tarrif of 1828 angered the South, especially South Carolina. They threatened to secede from the U.S. if the tarrif wasn't nullified. Jackson challenged South Carolina to secede, but Heny Clay proposed the Compromised Tarrif of 1833 and got them to stay. -
Bank War
The Bank War was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson did not like the National Bank and vowed to destroy it. The Second Bank went bankrupt in 1841.
