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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson served as the 7th President of the United States. Before his Presidential term, Jackson was a celebrated military commander who led American troops during The Creek War of , War of and First Seminole War. Known as a populist candidate and revered military leader in his time, Andrew Jackson’s complicated life tells us much about warfare and politics in the United States during the early nineteenth century.
Andrew Jackson was born on the border of North and South Carolina on March 15, He was the third son of Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson. His father died shortly before his birth. Jackson grew up in the Waxhaws settlement, previously occupied by the Waxhaw people who were decimated by European diseases. The settlement was home to Irish, Scots-Irish, and German settlers.
Only a young boy during the Revolution, Jackson lived through the British invasion of t
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Early Life
Jackson's Birth
Andrew Jackson was born March 15, , in the Waxhaws area that went past the borders of present-day North and South Carolina. His parents, Andrew and Elizabeth, along with his two older brothers, Hugh and Robert, emigrated from Carrickfergus, Ireland in
Jackson’s father, for whom he was named, died shortly before Andrew was born. Raised by his widowed mother, Jackson grew up with his mother’s large extended Hutchinson family that were also Scots-Irish immigrant farmers. His mother had hopes of Andrew becoming a Presbyterian minister, but ung Jackson quickly dashed those hopes with his propensity for pranks, cursing and fighting.
American Revolutionary War
The battles of the American Revolutionary War that raged in the Carolinas from to had a devastating effect on Jackson’s life. Andrew, at age 13, voluntarily joined the patriotic cause along with his brothers to kamp the British.
His oldest brother, Hugh, died of he
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Andrew Jackson: Impact and Legacy
Andrew Jackson left a permanent imprint upon American politics and the presidency. Within eight years, he melded the amorphous coalition of personal followers who had elected him into the country's most durable and successful political party, an electoral machine whose organization and discipline would serve as a model for all others. At the same time, his controversial conduct in office galvanized opponents to organize the Whig party. The Democratic party was Jackson's child; the national two-party system was his legacy.
Jackson's drive for party organization was spurred by his own difficulties with Congress. Unlike other famously strong Presidents, Jackson defined himself not by enacting a legislative program but by thwarting one. In eight years, Congress passed only one major law, the Indian Removal Act of , at his behest. During this time Jackson vetoed twelve bills, more than his six predecessors combined. One of these was the first "pocke