THE LIFE OF ANDREW JACKSON BY :MICHAEL MILLER

DATE OF BIRTH Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, URL: best.com/a/top_10_best_andrew_jackson_quotes.html

PLACE OF BIRTH Andrew Jackson was born in the garden of the waxhaws, South Carolina. URL:

CHILDHOOD Andrew Jacksons parents moved to America they were Scotch-Irish Andrew was born two years after they arrived, and mother was widowed while pregnant. Jacksons family was very poor at thirteen years old he was captured by the British. They then contracted smallpox his mom was able to get them out but his brother died on on the trip home. His mom then died cholera. URL:

PERSONAL FACTS His nickname was Old Hickory. He was a Democrat. The democrats wanted him to be president. URL:

ELECTION OF 1824 The election was won by John Quincy Adams. John Adams won with 84 electoral votes but not by the votes did he win he won because the house of representatives chose him. Most of the north east of the country voted for him as shown in the picture below. He was favored by the republicans URL:

ELECTION OF 1828 Andrew Jackson won this election. Andrew Jackson had 178 electoral votes most of the east side of the country voted for Jackson He was favored by the democrats URL: Watch video at:

JACKSON AND A POLITICAL CONVENTION After Jackson was elected in 1828 party structures got better and the idea of conventions began to make more sense. There where party conventions on a state level but never a national convention. The rise of Andrew Jackson caused the idea of being elected by a caucus of congressmen to fall out of favor causing Americans to find better ways to elect presidents. URL:

JACKSON ACTIVELY CAMPAIGNING Jackson was one of the first presidents to actually go and try to persuade the people to elect him while other presidents just would say what they want or what they like. URL:

SPOILS SYSTEM Andrew Jackson was the first president to adopt the spoils system on a larger scale in the national government. Although Jackson used the spoils system out of all his eight years in office he didn’t remove more then a total of twenty percent for political reasons. URL:

KITCHEN CABINET 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. Calhoun and Secretary of State Martin Van Buren. The infighting was so pronounced that the Cabinet became virtually ineffectual, and Jackson stopped holding Cabinet meetings. He turned instead to an unofficial group of trusted friends and advisors, mocked in the rival press as the “Kitchen Cabinet. URL:

VETO POWER USED BY JACKSON The veto was very important for Andrew Jackson. It was very important because it got the united states out of the national debt. He used this to lose all of the federal funds. URL:

NULLIFICATION CRISIS Started in about the 1830s when the leaders of South Carolina felt like they did not want to follow Jacksons rules. This ended when they agreed on a new tariff.

TRAIL OF TEARS In 1838 through 1839, due to the Indian removal policy, the Cherokees were forced to give up there land and move to Oklahoma. Watch video at : http//:

TREATMENT OF CHEROKEE INDIANS this is generally the end of Indian Rights to live in those states under their own traditional laws. The five major tribes affected were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, creek, and Seminole. URL:

DISCRIMINATION BY JACKSON The migrant wagon-train in which Jackson traveled to Nashville caring news of the approval of the federal constitution by the necessary two thirds of the states. URL:

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT After winning both political and military action on removing the natives from south America in 1829, president Andrew Jackson made it a law on may URL:

CONCLUSION PAGE President Andrew Jackson was the seventh he was born poor and became a lawyer. As he was working his way up in life he became the seventh president after he lost in 1824 he came back to win in As president he was known as the “common man’’, because he became a rich Tennessee lawyer and a successful young politician. He died June 8 th 1845.

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