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Andrew Jackson Historical Figure

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My historical figure is Andrew Jackson and I am going to be discussing his hard life on the things he went through to get to his successful life as the seventh president. It all began where he was born and raised in waxhaws. Waxhaws was near the North carolina and South carolina border. It was a small area, but jackson got through a lot of tough times in that town. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaws. His father died shortly after he was born. Andrew had a large extended family. Andrew and his brothers volunteered to fight the British when he was only thirteen. His older brother Hugh died of a heat stroke in 1779. Andrew and his brother Robert was captured in 1781, and Robert contracted smallpox and died. The area offered

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