Andrew Jackson Research Paper

“His audacity on behalf of the people earned him enemies who slandered him and defamed even his wife, Rachel. He dueled in her defense and his own, suffering grievous wounds that left him with bullet fragments lodged about his body." This is a description of President Andrew Jackson, America’s original hot head. Andrew Jackson was the youngest child to be born to Andrew Jackson, Sr. and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. The Jackson family emigrated from Northern Ireland to the Colonies, in search of prosperity and opportunities with their young sons, Hugh and Robert. Andrew was the only one of the Jackson sons to be born in the Colonies, near the end of the colonial period, on March 15, 1767. Jackson claimed to have been born in Lancaster

When Jackson was only two years old his father died, and his mother died when he was only 14 years old. Andrew received some sparse education in the local "old-field" school. At the very young age of 13, Jackson helped in the Revolutionary War informally as a courier and then at the age of 14, he formally joined the American forces in the war. Jackson was captured by the British at the battle of Hanging Rock. During his captivity, he refused to blacken the boots of a British officer and the officer slashed him with his sword, leaving Jackson with scars on his left hand and his head, giving Jackson a deep hate for the British. Both of Jackson’s brothers, Hugh and Robert, also enlisted in the war, and both ended up being subsequently killed during the conflict, Robert from wounds he sustained as a prisoner of war after his

The Indian Removal Act was more than slightly controversial with a large number of citizens at the time supporting its passage, there was strong opposition. Many Christian missionaries, along with New Jersey Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, and Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee actively protested the passage and implementation of the Act, but it passed after a bitter struggle in Congress. Jackson called the removal of the tribes inevitable, adamantly saying they were a hindrance to progress, and it was their fate to be moved. Jackson referred to the northern citizens who criticized his decision hypocrites due to the North’s driving Indian tribes to extinction, seizing hunting grounds for their own farms, and state law taking all tribal laws from the Indians. He refused to take into consideration the view of the “lost Indian culture” as a desire by the country to live in a simpler time, insisting progress required forward movement, and saying the Indians stopped that