3. who came to America two years before his birth in 1767. His mother was widowed while pregnant with him. 4. childhood

4. When Jackson arrived in Nashville in 1788, he met Rachel Danielson Robar's, who, at the time, was unhappily married to but separated from Captain Lewis Robar's. 5. Personal facts

5. The 1828 presidential election was one of the dirtiest ever, and Jackson believed, with some reason, that his wife Rachel was driven to an early grave by charges of immorality. 6.Election of 1824

6. In December, it had become obvious that Jackson won the election in a landslide. The count was 178 to83 electoral votes, or 647,276 to 508,064 electoral votes. Then tragedy struck. Rachel Jackson had heart pains all through 1828.

7. The Virginia presidential dynasty was coming to an end with the second term of James Monroe. Three seasoned members of his cabinet vied for the succession: Secretary of State John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Treasury William Harris Crawford of Georgia, and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.

8. Many political professionals, especially Clay, did not take Jackson's... The 1832 campaign introduced the national nominating convention in place of the old...

9. The Virginia presidential dynasty was coming to an end with the second term of James Monroe. Three seasoned members of his cabinet vied for the succession: Secretary of State John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Treasury William Harris Crawford of Georgia, and Secretary of War John C. Calhoun of South Carolina. Henry Clay of Kentucky, the brilliant Speaker of the House of Representatives and a rival of Jackson's for popularity in the new western states, was also an aspirant.

10. To Jackson and his supporters, such changes were good policy. There were stories circulated claiming elderly men who were no longer able to perform their jobs were still filling positions to which they had been appointed by George Washington nearly 40 years earlier.

11. When President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, his official Cabinet was fractured by factional disputes, largely resulting from the fierce rivalry between Vice President John C.

12. With the Republicans controlling the next Congress, there’s already talk of President Barack Obama flexing his executive veto powers.

13. Andrew Jackson was elected as President of the United States because the American people saw him as the “everyman.” Jackson’s supporters, angry over John Quincy Adams’ win in the 1824 election, strategized to sabotage his presidency. When the tariff went into effect, Southerners complained long and loudly.

14. Indian policy caused the President little political trouble because his primary supporters were from the southern and western states and generally favored a plan to remove all the Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. In 1832, a group of about a thousand BB#00081878SAC AND FOX INDIANS led by CHIEF BLACK HAWK returned to Illinois, but militia members easily drove them back across the Mississippi.

15. Indian Removal Act summary: After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829, President Andrew Jackson signed this into law on May 28, 1830.

16. United Colonies of North America: 13 British Colonies United in Congress was founded by 12 colonies on September 5th, 1774 (Georgia joined in 1775) and governed through a British colonial congress.

17. It was signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United States government.

18. His presidential actions left the presidency much stronger than it had been, and he strengthened the idea of the United States as a nation, rather than a number of states with an agreement to act in concert, which agreement they might renounce some day.

19. They were formally married after her divorce in 1794. Charges of adultery arising from the episode dogged Jackson's later political career. After serving as Tennessee prosecutor, judge, congressman, and senator, he won fame as a major general in the War of 1812 with smashing victories against the Creek Indians in 1814 and the British at New Orleans in January 1815.

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21. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/andrew- jackson http://millercenter.org/president/jackson http://millercenter.org/president/jackson/key- events http://www.ushistory.org/us/23d.asp http://www.andrew jackson.com