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Biographical facts about Andrew Jackson:

Andrew Jackson was born in the town of Newmarket in Canada. And Andrew Jackson was born on a Wednesday on the date of 09-11-1963.

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• Born: 1963-09-11
• Born in: Newmarket, Canada

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Andrew Jackson?

how did andrew jackson represent a change in american politics? Any interesting facts about him? I have a project due and hes one of the topics and before i start research i wanted to know some things about him.

Answer:He was instrumental in adopting the spoils system in government. An informal practice by which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to it's voters as a reward for working toward victory and an incentive to keep them working for the party. -- He is the only President to be a P.O.W. At age 13, Jackson and his brother were prisoners of the British. -- During the 1828 Presidental election, opponents refered to him as " Jackass " he liked the name and used it as a symbol, later it became the symbol of the Democratic party. -- He was the first President to be born in a log cabin and the first to ride a railroad train. -- Jackson had the first known case of a politician being handed a baby to kiss. He declined. -- First President to survive an assassination attempt. -- At his funeral in 1845, his pet parrot had to be removed for swearing.

Why Did Andrew Jackson Believe That The Native Americans Needed To Be Moved West Of The Mississippi River?

How Was Andrew Jacksons presidency viewed by the supporters of states rights? How did Jackson respond to the 1831 Supreme Court ruling that Indians had a right to rule their lands? If you can answer any, or all of these, please help! Thank You very much.

Answer:While a populist who did much to democratize American politics for whites, he was also an arch racist who wanted to take away any rights and property the Indians held. His comment on the 1831 decision was that the court could try to enforce its ruling, but he (Jackson) commanded the Army. He pretty much ignored states rights when he wanted something done, like a highway.

Do You Think Andrew Jackson Was A Great Lead Or A Horrible Leader?

Hi, I need others opinions on whether Andrew Jackson was a great leader during his presidency or not? And if you could give me some examples to support your oppinions it would be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Answer:It depends on who you talk to. If you were a middle class landowning white man out west, he was the best thing since fire. He fought for the little people...in some ways more than others...with small things like fighting corrupt banking and trying to implement "solid" currency i.e. gold, silver coins. If you were, however, not a white man then he was certainly not a good guy. Depending on who you talk to, he was racist, sexist and personally hated natives. However, my opinion was that he was little more of a practical guy...he was racist, sure, but you have to take into account that he was also a plantation-owning southerner and, to get reelected, had to appeal to the other plantation and land-owners of the south. However, no one can doubt his stance toward the natives. As far as he (and, unfortunately a good deal of the population during this time) was concerned, these less-than-humans were on U.S. land and needed to get off. So, you could say he was a great leader and you could also say he was a terrible leader. It all depends on your point of view.

How Old Was Andrew Jackson When He First Joined The Military? What War Did He Fight Then?

How old was andrew jackson when he first joined the military? What war did he fight then?

Answer:Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Waxhaws area near the border between North and South Carolina on March 15, 1767. Jackson's parents lived in North Carolina but historians debate on which side of the state line the birth took place. Jackson was the third child and third son of Scots-Irish parents. His father, also named Andrew, died as the result of a logging accident just a few weeks before the future president was born. Jackson's mother, Elizabeth ("Betty") Hutchison Jackson, was by all accounts a strong, independent woman. After her husband's death she raised her three sons at the South Carolina home of one of her sisters. The Declaration of Independence was signed when young Andrew was nine years old and at thirteen he joined the Continental Army as a courier. The Revolution took a toll on the Jackson family. All three boys saw active service. One of Andrew's older brothers, Hugh, died after the Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina in 1779, and two years later Andrew and his other brother Robert were taken prisoner for a few weeks in April 1781. While they were captives a British officer ordered them to clean his boots. The boys refused, the officer struck them with his sword and Andrew's hand was cut to the bone. Because of his ill treatment Jackson harbored a bitter resentment towards the British until his death. Both brothers contracted smallpox during their imprisonment and Robert was dead within days of their release. Later that year Betty Jackson went to Charleston to nurse American prisoners of war. Shortly after she arrived Mrs. Jackson fell ill with either ship fever or cholera and died. Andrew found himself an orphan and an only child at fourteen. Jackson spent most of the next year and a half living with relatives and for six of those months was apprenticed to a saddle maker.

describe The Ways In Which Andrew Jackson Expanded The Personal Power Of The President.?

This is suppose to be a 5 page paper for history. i've gotten a few pages done but i'm all out of ideas. here is the prompt describe the ways in which Andrew Jackson expanded the personal power of the President questions to think of...could any other prez. b4 jackson do this? is he doing anything new and different? is he messing with congress? the supreme court? the states? if anyone could help asap i would greatly appreciate it!

Answer:Un-constitutionally, but he did some good with his powers. If he had succeeded in dismantling the national bank, for good, in favor of an honest money system, we wouldn't have the national debt we have. He slaughtered a bunch of "indians"(aka original americans), if you want to call that power.

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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York Times Notable Books)
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Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Andrew Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy. Jackson’s election in 1828 ushered in a new and lasting era in which the people, not distant elites, were the guiding force in American politics. Democracy made its stand in the Jackson years, and he gave voice to the hopes and the fears of a restless, changing nation facing challenging times at home and threats abroad. To tell the saga of Jackson’s presidency, acclaimed author Jon Meacham goes inside the Jackson White House. Drawing on newly discovered family letters and papers, he details the human drama–the family, the women, and the inner circle of advisers–that shaped Jackson’s private world through years of storm and victory.

One of our most significant yet dimly recalled presidents, Jackson was a battle-hardened warrior, the founder of the Democratic Party, and the architect of the presidency as we know it. His story is one of violence, sex, courage, and tragedy. With his powerful persona, his evident bravery, and his mystical connection to the people, Jackson moved the White House from the periphery of government to the center of national action, articulating a vision of change that challenged entrenched interests to heed the popular will–or face his formidable wrath. The greatest of the presidents who have followed Jackson in the White House–from Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to FDR to Truman–have found inspiration in his example, and virtue in his vision.

Jackson was the most contradictory of men. The architect of the removal of Indians from their native lands, he was warmly sentimental and risked everything to give more power to ordinary citizens. He was, in short, a lot like his country: alternately kind and vicious, brilliant and blind; and a man who fought a lifelong war to keep the republic safe–no matter what it took.

Jon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency–and America itself.


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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
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In this, the first major single-volume biography of Andrew Jackson in decades, H.W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in.

An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the Presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. This is a thrilling portrait, in full, of the president who defined American democracy.

Andrew Jackson
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The towering figure who remade American politics—the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege

     The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader democracy, gathered force and united behind Andrew Jackson, the charismatic general who had defeated the British at New Orleans and who embodied the hopes of ordinary Americans. Raising his voice against the artificial inequalities fostered by birth, station, monied power, and political privilege, Jackson brought American politics into a new age.
     Sean Wilentz, one of America’s leading historians of the nineteenth century, recounts the fiery career of this larger-than-life figure, a man whose high ideals were matched in equal measure by his failures and moral blind spots, a man who is remembered for the accomplishments of his eight years in office and for the bitter enemies he made. It was in Jackson’s time that the great conflicts of American politics—urban versus rural, federal versus state, free versus slave—crystallized, and Jackson was not shy about taking a vigorous stand. It was under Jackson that modern American politics began, and his legacy continues to inform our debates to the present day.

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency
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The first president with a nickname, "Old Hickory" was born in a log cabin and was an orphan by age 13, but rose to become a major general in the United States Army and the seventh president of the United States. Jackson had strong opinions and equally strong opposition during his eight years as president. He was the first president to open the doors of the White House to blue-collar Americans, and he shook up the glossy world of Washington, DC with his "common man" methods and ideals, but also oversaw one of the most controversial events in American history: the forced removal of Indian tribes, including the Cherokees, from their homes.

Andrew Jackson (Great Generals)
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Andrew Jackson is best known as the president who created “Jacksonian democracy,” with its focus on manifest destiny and laissez-faire economics. But rarely are his accomplishments as a general highlighted. Jackson's effective use of spies in war time and of martial law in peace time sparked a debate about the curtailing of civil liberties in the name of national security that continues to this day. Most of all, Jackson was a great motivator who could, with a few carefully selected words and by his own brave example, turn around starved, deserting troops, convincing them to fight. With dramatic scenes of fierce battles and victories, Remini reveals here why Jackson's bold leadership as a general led to his election as President of the United States in 1828.

Andrew Jackson and the Bank War (Norton Essays in American History)
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Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans (Vintage)
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December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest battles ever fought in North America.

The defense of New Orleans fell to the backwoods general Andrew Jackson, who joined the raffish French pirate Jean Laffite to command a ramshackle army made of free blacks, Creole aristocrats, Choctaw Indians, gunboat sailors and militiamen. Together these leaders and their scruffy crew turned back a British force more than twice their number. Offering an enthralling narrative and outsized characters, Patriotic Fire is a vibrant recounting of the plots and strategies that made Jackson a national hero and gave the nascent republic a much-needed victory and surge of pride and patriotism.

Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System (American Presidential Elections)
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The presidential election of 1828 is one of the most compelling stories in American history: Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans and man of the people, bounced back from his controversial loss four years earlier to unseat John Quincy Adams in a campaign notorious for its mudslinging. With his victory, the torch was effectively passed from the founding fathers to the people.

This study of Jackson's election separates myth from reality to explain why it had such an impact on present-day American politics. Featuring parades and public participation to a greater degree than had previously been seen, the campaign itself first centered on two key policy issues: tariffs and republicanism. But as Donald Cole shows, the major theme turned out to be what Adams scornfully called "electioneering": the rise of mass political parties and the origins of a two-party system, built from the top down, whose leaders were willing to spend unprecedented time and money to achieve victory.

Cole's innovative study examines the election at the local and state, as well as the national, levels, focusing on New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia to provide a social, economic, and political cross section of 1828 America. He describes how the Jacksonians were better organized, paid more attention to detail, and recruited a broader range of workers--especially state-level party leaders and newspaper editors who were invaluable for raising funds, publicizing party dogma, and smearing the opposition. The Jacksonians also outdid the Adams supporters in zealotry, violence of language, and the overwhelming force of their campaigning and succeeded in painting their opponents as aristocratic, class conscious, and undemocratic.

Tracing interpretations of this election from James Parton's classic 1860 biography of Jackson to recent revisionist accounts attacking Old Hickory for his undemocratic treatment of blacks, Indians, and women, Cole argues that this famous election did not really bring democracy to America as touted--because it was democracy that enabled Jackson to win. By offering a more charismatic candidate, a more vigorous campaign, a more acceptable recipe for preserving the past, and a more forthright acceptance of a new political system, Jackson's Democrats dominated an election in which campaigning outweighed issues and presaged the presidential election of 2008.

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Biography -- Biography Andrew Jackson: A Man For The
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He rocketed to fame as a blood and guts commander who allied himself with pirates and scoundrels. He rode his legend all the way to the White House.

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The Life of Andrew Jackson
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The classic one-volume biography of Andrew Jackson

Robert V. Remini's prizewinning, three-volumn biography, The Life of Andrew Jackson, won the National Book Award upon it's completion in 1984. Now, Remini captures the essence of the life and career of the seventh president of the United States in the meticulously crafted single-volume abridgement.

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