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