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Andrew Jackson's Birth
Jackson was born in a log cabin in South Carolina on March 15,1767 -
Jackson enlists in the Revolutionary Army
At the age of 13, Andrew Jackson joined the army during the Revolutionary War. -
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War of 1812
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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Colonel Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, which ended the Creek War. -
Battle of New Orleans
Andrew Jackson was the major general and commanded the American troops to victory over the British. -
Election of 1824
Andrew Jackson and William H. Crawford ran as democrats and John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay ran as republicans. Jackson had the highest percentage of votes and he won the popular vote, but John Quicny Adams still won the election and became the next President of the United States. -
Election of 1828
It was rematch of the 1824 elction with Jackson and Adams against each other. This time Jackson and Calhoun won the elction. -
Bank War
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Bank War
he Bank War started in 1829, when Andrew Jackson made his antagonism toward the Second Bank of the United States clear. In response, Nicholas Biddle and Henry Clay applied to renew the bank's charter four years earlier than necessary in order to make it an election issue. He interpreted this victory as a mandate to terminate the bank entirely. -
Indian Removal Act
The Removal Act paved the way for the reluctant—and often forcible—emigration of tens of thousands of American Indians to the West.A Choctaw chief, thought to be Thomas Harkins or Nitikechi, was quoted in the Arkansas Gazette as saying the 1831 Choctaw removal was a "trail of tears and death". -
Worcester V. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia 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-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional. -
Nullification Crisis
This compromise tariff received the support of most northerners and half of the southerners in Congress. The reductions were too little for South Carolina, and in November 1832 a state convention declared that the tariffs of both 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina after February 1, 1833. In late February both a Force Bill, authorizing the President to use military force to prevent them from seceding.
