Brief Summary Of Andrew Jackson's War

Andrew Jackson was born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767 to parents Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson. Andrew Jackson’s father died while his mother was pregnant with him. Therefore Andrew had never seen or met his father. While in school as a boy, Andrew Jackson was known for furious horseback riding, swearing and fighting. He would defiantly push his mother’s patience to the limit. Soon the war would force the Jackson family from the advancing British troops and their allies. Andrew and his two older brothers became soldiers. Soon after one brother would die in the war. In 1781, the British captured Andrew and his last surviving brother Robert. An officer ordered Andrew to clean his boots. He refused, so the officer got angry

He then pulled the trigger a second time, it fires. Hitting Dickinson in the stomach and down to the ground Dickinson went. Jackson walks away calmly with blood flowing from his chest gunshot wound. Dickinson died later on that very day. Jackson never had the bullet removed from his chest, it was lodged next to his heart for the remainder of his life. Andrew Jackson believed that women were weak and that men as the stronger sex, were morally obligated to protect them. Even though he knew he would be marked as a murderer, he felt vindication of his killing in defending his wife. In January of 1815, Jackson led regular army men, militia, pirates, and frre blacks to defeat an army of British regulars at New Orleans, a great victory! This made him a hero of America’s ability to stand up to the British. War had given Andrew Jackson the status and personal satisfaction for which he had been yerning for. Andrew Jackson was the nation’s leading general. After the war Jackson returned to Tennessee. In Tennessee it was clear he was no longer known as a murderer, but a hero. Jackson negotiated many successful treaties with the southern Indians and then he was

In July of 1822, the Tennessee legislative nominated him for the presidency of the United States. In November 1824 election Jackson won the popular vote over John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford. But since he did not gain the majority in the Electoral College, the election had to be determined in the House of Representatives. On January 9, 1825, the house chose Adams to be the next President of the United States. The fact that Jackson had won the popular vote for president, he felt that he and the people had been cheated. All during his life, Andrew Jackson saw conspiracy and corruption in anything or anyone who stood in his way. He was more determined than ever to defeat the corruption that had cost him his defeat in the election of 1824. In 1825, Jackson was nominated again for the presidency. The 1828 election campaign was one of the dirtiest in American history. Andrew Jackson’s opponents during this election brought attacked him with his past. They brought up his alleged murders of twelve men in duels, executions, and various other war and peacetime activities. They even went as far as to label his mother a British prostitute who had married a