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Andrew Jackson Birth Date
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15th, 1767. He was born in Waxhaws NC. -
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Jackson Enlisted in the Military
He served as a major general in the War of 1812, commanded U.S. forces in a five-month campaign against the Creek Indians, allies of the British. After that campaign ended in a decisive American victory in the Battle of Tohopeka (or Horseshoe Bend) in Alabama in mid-1814, Jackson led American forces to victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans (January 1815).
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Jackson used "friendly" native americans to help him and his troops beat the british. -
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. The victory vaulted Jackson to national stardom, and helped foil plans for a British invasion of the American frontier. -
Election of 1824
Jackson and Quincy Adams were running against each other for president. Quincy Adams "cheated" because he had Henry Clay convince the house of represenatives to vot e for Adams, and in return Adams would give Clay a spot in his cabinet. -
Election of 1828
In this election Andrew Jackson used the past election to help him win this one. -
Indian Removal Act
After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829. Although it only gave the right to negotiate for their withdrawal from areas to the east of the Mississippi river and that relocation was supposed to be voluntary, all of the pressure was there to make this all but inevitable. All the tribal leaders agreed after Jackson’s landslide election victory in 1832. -
Worcester vs Georgia
In 1831, Samuel A. Worcester and others, all non-Native Americans, were indicted in the supreme court for the county of Gwinnett in the state of Georgia for "residing within the limits of the Cherokee nation without a license" and "without having taken the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the state of Georgia.OYEZ -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis arose in the early 1830s when leaders of South Carolina advanced the idea that a state did not have to follow a federal law and could, in effect, "nullify" the law. -
Bank War
In 1832, Jackson had vetoed a bill calling for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter, but renewal was still possible when the charter expired in 1836; to prevent that from happening, he set out to reduce the bank’s economic power.
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