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Andrew Jackson's Role In American History

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Andrew Jackson is known as a man who held some very important roles in American history. He had a childhood as normal as an emigrant, he was a general and was once our president. We chose this topic because we think that Andrew Jackson was an amazing general and lead a great long life as well as lead our country in a positive direction when it came to war. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 and his parents were Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson. Andrew and Elizabeth were Irish Presbyterians and had moved from Ireland to America in 1765. Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus around 1738, in a county called Antrim, which is currently known today to be in Northern Ireland. Jackson's parents lived in the village of Boneybefore, also in …show more content…

They had with them two children, Hugh and Robert. On February 1767, at the age of 29, Jackson's father died in an accident. His son, also named Andrew, was born in the Waxhaw’s area three weeks after. Baby Andrew Jackson’s precise birthplace is not exactly known because his mother gave birth on the way back from burying her husband. The place they were at was so distant that it had not yet been surveyed. In 1824, it is said, that Andrew Jackson wrote a letter that says he was born in a plantation in Lancaster, Carolina owned by his uncle. But Jackson claims that he lived in South Carolinian because the northern state was considering nullifying the Tariff of 1824, which Jackson opposed. In the mid-1850s, some other evidence shows that he might have been born in another relative’s home in North Carolina. Andrew was able to get an education even though the attendance was not regular. In 1781, he worked with his family as a tanner, which were people who treated animal skins into leather. In Salisbury, North Carolina he taught and studied

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Andrew Jackson by Robert V. Remini is a book, anyone ought to read if one needs to know about Andrew Jackson. While the book is forty-six years old, the 212 page book contains all that you have to know about the seventh President of the United States, from his time as a tyke to his ascent to notoriety as a hero in the Battle of New Orleans and to his retirement as President. Firstly, in 1765, Andrew his father who he was named after, Elizabeth his mother who was pregnant with him at the time and his two older brothers Hugh and Robert immigrated to America. “On arrival, the family headed straight for the Waxhaws”(Pg 15).

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Andrew Carnegie was born November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. At the age of twelve, he and his family took the long voyage from Scotland to the United States. Young Andrew adapted and thrived in the modern age of America. At the age of thirteen, Andrew began his first job, which was working in a boiler room at a thread factory. However, luck was on his side and he soon became a messenger for O'Reilly Telegraph Company.

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Brittany Randall-Neppl APUSH Period 6 Mr. Kloster 12/19/2014 Andrew Jackson: Champion of the Common Man or Tyrant Andrew Jackson was born into a common life but overcame his mediocre beginnings to become a powerful politician; in 1828 he was elected president of the United States. However, he abused this position of power and made several choices that were detrimental to the welfare and rights of the American people. Jackson implemented the spoils system on a national scale and had unofficial members of his cabinet who did not have to answer to Congress. After South Carolinians were upset by the Tariff of 1832 he was angry toward those who did not agree with it. He also destroyed the National Bank and authorized the Specie Circular.

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The reason that Jackson’s background and personality were so appealing to Americans in the 1820’s was that it was something that no one had ever heard of before. The story of how Jackson’s parents were Scott-Irish immigrants who came to America with children to have a new life appeals to the vast majority of immigrants in America. The unexpected death of Jackson’s father and then when his older brother Hugh dies of heat exposure and fatigue appeals to the vast majority of Americans who despised the British. Likewise when Jackson and his second oldest brother Robert were taken as prisoners of war by the British and when they were being taken to the British prison camp both Andrew and Robert would contract smallpox, of which Robert would die

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Andrew Jackson was born March 15, 1767 and died June 18, 1845 because of tuberculosis. He was orphaned as a teenager by Andrew jackson, Father, and Elizabeth Hutchinson, mother. He grew up to be a landowner and lawyer, even thought growing up and facing poverty. He received erratic education years before the revolutionary war. After his older brother died, Hugh Jackson, Jackson joined a local militia and served as a patriot courier at age thirteen.

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Andrew Johnson is came from a poor family and was not educated until later years. He was born on December 29, 1808 and died July 31, 1875/ He was the seventh president. Andrew Johnson finished out Araham Lincoln's term when he was assasinated. He was a very prejudice person who believed the United States was for white men and should only be governed by white men. Many people think he was the worst president the United States has ever had until Barack Obama come along.

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Phil Jackson has often been miscalculated. Known over his historical career as “The Zen Master”, the truth is that Jackson is in a league of his own, both in his success and how he reached that success; as a person and a basketball coach. Jackson’s book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, written with Hugh Delehanty, tries to explain the talent and genius leadership of the man thought of as one of the most successful coaches in NBA history. Born September 17, 1945, in Deer Lodge, Montana, Jackson was devoted to sports his entire life, playing basketball in college at North Dakota, and going on to being drafted to the New York Knicks in the second round of the 1967 NBA draft.

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Born on March 15, 1767, Andrew Jackson was brought up in a small house on the border of North and South Carolina. Although there is not much said about his younger years, at the age of thirteen Andrew joined the U.S. military, fighting against the British in the Revolutionary War. He was captured by the British but later released due to the pleading of his mother to the British. While in captivity he was once asked to polish the boots of a British soldier. He refused and the soldier drew his sword and went to slash him but Andrew put his hand in the path of the sword and it cut his hand and the side of his face, both cuts left scars which were reminders to him of his hatred of the British.

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His older brother was killed in the War of Independence: at fourteen, Andrew and his brother Robert joined battle in the area, which threatened the British troops, and been captured. At the same time, both brothers suffered serious head injuries, from which Robert had died a few months later. In the spring of 1781, Andrew been released, and a few weeks later his mother died. This is how tragically began Andrew Jacksons’

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