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Andrew Jackson <\/b>was the seventh\u00a0president of the United States<\/a>\u00a0from 1829 to 1837.<\/p>\n

Before\u00a0his presidency<\/a>, he rose to fame as a general in the\u00a0U.S. Army<\/a>\u00a0and served in both houses of the\u00a0U.S. Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jackson’s legacy is controversial. He has been praised as an advocate for working Americans and\u00a0preserving the union of states<\/a>, and criticized for his racist policies, particularly towards\u00a0Native Americans<\/a>.\u00a0His political philosophy<\/a>\u00a0became the basis for the\u00a0Democratic Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jackson was born in the colonial\u00a0Carolinas<\/a>\u00a0before the\u00a0American Revolutionary War<\/a>. He became a\u00a0frontier<\/a>\u00a0lawyer and married\u00a0Rachel Donelson Robards<\/a>. He briefly served in the\u00a0U.S. House of Representatives<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0U.S. Senate<\/a>, representing\u00a0Tennessee<\/a>. After resigning, he served as a justice on the\u00a0Tennessee Superior Court<\/a>\u00a0from 1798 until 1804. Jackson purchased a plantation later known as\u00a0the Hermitage<\/a>, becoming a wealthy\u00a0planter<\/a>\u00a0who profited off the forced labor of hundreds of\u00a0enslaved<\/a>\u00a0African Americans during his lifetime. In 1801, he was appointed colonel of the Tennessee militia and was elected its commander. He led troops during the\u00a0Creek War<\/a>\u00a0of 1813\u20131814, winning the\u00a0Battle of Horseshoe Bend<\/a>\u00a0and negotiating the\u00a0Treaty of Fort Jackson<\/a>\u00a0that required the indigenous\u00a0Creek<\/a>\u00a0population to surrender vast tracts of present-day Alabama and Georgia. In the concurrent\u00a0war against the British<\/a>, Jackson’s victory at the\u00a0Battle of New Orleans<\/a>\u00a0in 1815 made him a national hero. He later commanded U.S. forces in the\u00a0First Seminole War<\/a>, which led to the\u00a0annexation<\/a>\u00a0of Florida from Spain. Jackson briefly served as Florida’s first territorial governor before returning to the Senate. He ran for president in\u00a01824<\/a>. He won a\u00a0plurality<\/a>\u00a0of the popular and electoral vote, but no candidate won the electoral majority. With the help of\u00a0Henry Clay<\/a>, the House of Representatives elected\u00a0John Quincy Adams<\/a>\u00a0as president. Jackson’s supporters alleged that there was a \u00ab\u00a0corrupt bargain<\/a>\u00a0\u00bb between Adams and Clay and began creating a new political coalition that became the\u00a0Democratic Party<\/a>\u00a0in the 1830s.<\/p>\n

Jackson ran again in\u00a01828<\/a>, defeating Adams in a landslide despite issues such as his slave trading and his \u00ab\u00a0irregular\u00a0\u00bb marriage. In 1830, he signed the\u00a0Indian Removal Act<\/a>. This act, which has been described as\u00a0ethnic cleansing<\/a>,\u00a0displaced<\/a>\u00a0tens of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi and resulted in thousands of deaths. Jackson faced a challenge to the integrity of the federal union when South Carolina threatened to nullify a high\u00a0protective tariff<\/a>\u00a0set by the federal government.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0threatened<\/a>\u00a0the use of military force to enforce the tariff, but the crisis was defused when it was\u00a0amended<\/a>. In 1832, he vetoed a bill by Congress to reauthorize the\u00a0Second Bank of the United States<\/a>, arguing that it was a corrupt institution. After a lengthy\u00a0struggle<\/a>, the Bank was dismantled. In 1835, Jackson became the only president to pay off the\u00a0national debt<\/a>. After leaving office, Jackson supported the presidencies of\u00a0Martin Van\u00a0Buren<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0James K. Polk<\/a>, as well as the\u00a0annexation of Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Contemporary opinions about Jackson are often polarized. Supporters characterize him as a defender of democracy and the\u00a0U.S. Constitution<\/a>, while critics point to his reputation as a\u00a0demagogue<\/a>\u00a0who ignored the law when it suited him.\u00a0Scholarly rankings of U.S. presidents<\/a> historically rated Jackson’s presidency as above average. Since the late 20th century, his reputation declined, and in the 21st century his placement in rankings of presidents fell.<\/p>\n

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the\u00a0Waxhaws<\/a>\u00a0region of the\u00a0Carolinas<\/a>. His parents were\u00a0Scots-Irish<\/a>\u00a0colonists Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson,\u00a0Presbyterians<\/a>\u00a0who had emigrated from\u00a0Ulster<\/a>, Ireland, in 1765.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Jackson’s father was born in\u00a0Carrickfergus<\/a>,\u00a0County Antrim<\/a>, around 1738,<\/sup>and his ancestors had crossed into Northern Ireland from Scotland after the\u00a0Battle of the Boyne<\/a>\u00a0in 1690.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Jackson had two older brothers who came with his parents from Ireland, Hugh (born 1763) and Robert (born 1764).<\/sup><\/sup>Elizabeth had a strong hatred of the British that she passed on to her sons.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Jackson’s exact birthplace is unclear. Jackson’s father died at the age of 29 in February 1767, three weeks before his son Andrew was born;<\/sup>\u00a0afterwards, Elizabeth and her three sons moved in with her sister and brother-in-law, Jane and James Crawford.<\/sup> Jackson later stated that he was born on the Crawford plantation, <\/sup>which is in\u00a0Lancaster County, South Carolina<\/a>, but second-hand evidence suggests that he might have been born at another uncle’s home in North Carolina.<\/sup><\/p>\n

When Jackson was young, Elizabeth thought he might become a minister and paid to have him schooled by a local clergyman.<\/sup>He learned to read, write, and work with numbers, and was exposed to Greek and Latin,[<\/span>9]<\/span><\/a><\/sup> but he was too strong-willed and hot-tempered for the ministry<\/p>\n

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Revolutionary War<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
\"Sketch<\/a>
The Brave Boy of the Waxhaws<\/i>, an 1876\u00a0Currier and Ives<\/a>\u00a0lithograph depicting the story of a young Andrew Jackson defending himself from a\u00a0British<\/a>\u00a0officer during the\u00a0American Revolutionary War<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackson and his older brothers, Hugh and Robert, served on the\u00a0Patriot<\/a>\u00a0side against British forces during the\u00a0American Revolutionary War<\/a>. Hugh served under Colonel\u00a0William Richardson Davie<\/a>, dying from\u00a0heat exhaustion<\/a>\u00a0after the\u00a0Battle of Stono Ferry<\/a>\u00a0in June 1779.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0After anti-British sentiment intensified in the Southern Colonies following the\u00a0Battle of Waxhaws<\/a>\u00a0in May 1780, Elizabeth encouraged Andrew and Robert to participate in militia drills.<\/sup> They served as couriers,\u00a0<\/sup>and were present at the\u00a0Battle of Hanging Rock<\/a>\u00a0in August 1780.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Andrew and Robert were captured in April 1781 when the British occupied the home of a Crawford relative. A British officer demanded to have his boots polished. Andrew refused, and the officer slashed him with a sword, leaving him with scars on his left hand and head. Robert also refused and was struck a blow on the head.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0The brothers were taken to a\u00a0prisoner-of-war camp<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Camden, South Carolina<\/a>, where they became malnourished and contracted smallpox.<\/sup>\u00a0In late spring, the brothers were released to their mother in a\u00a0prisoner exchange<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Robert died two days after arriving home, but Elizabeth was able to nurse Andrew back to health.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Once he recovered, Elizabeth volunteered to nurse American\u00a0prisoners of war<\/a>\u00a0housed in British\u00a0prison ships<\/a>\u00a0in the harbor of\u00a0Charleston, South Carolina<\/a>. <\/sup>She contracted\u00a0cholera<\/a>\u00a0and died soon afterwards.<\/p>\n

<\/sup> The war made Jackson an orphan at age 14\u00a0<\/sup>and increased his hatred for the values he associated with Britain, in particular\u00a0aristocracy<\/a>\u00a0and political privilege.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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After the American Revolutionary War, Jackson worked as a saddler,<\/sup>briefly returned to school, and taught reading and writing to children.<\/sup>\u00a0In 1784, he left the Waxhaws region for\u00a0Salisbury, North Carolina<\/a>, where he\u00a0studied law<\/a>\u00a0under attorney Spruce Macay.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>He completed his training under\u00a0John Stokes<\/a>, <\/sup>and was admitted to the\u00a0North Carolina bar<\/a>\u00a0in September 1787.[<\/span>26]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Shortly thereafter, his friend\u00a0John McNairy<\/a>\u00a0helped him get appointed as a\u00a0prosecuting attorney<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Western District<\/a>\u00a0of North Carolina,<\/sup>\u00a0which would later become the state of\u00a0Tennessee<\/a>. While traveling to assume his new position, Jackson stopped in\u00a0Jonesborough<\/a>. While there, he bought his first slave, a woman who was around his age.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>He also fought his first\u00a0duel<\/a>, accusing another lawyer,\u00a0Waightstill Avery<\/a>, of impugning his character. The duel ended with both men firing in the air.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Jackson began his new career in the frontier town of Nashville in 1788 and quickly moved up in\u00a0social status<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0He became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of\u00a0William Blount<\/a>, one of the most powerful men in the territory.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0Jackson was appointed attorney general of the Mero District in 1791 and\u00a0judge-advocate<\/a>\u00a0for the militia the following year.<\/sup>\u00a0He also got involved in land speculation,<\/sup>\u00a0eventually forming a partnership with fellow lawyer\u00a0John Overton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Their partnership mainly dealt with claims made under a\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0land grab\u00a0\u00bb act of 1783<\/a>\u00a0that opened\u00a0Cherokee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Chickasaw<\/a>\u00a0territory to North Carolina’s white residents.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Jackson also became a\u00a0slave trader<\/a>,<\/sup>\u00a0transporting enslaved people for the\u00a0interregional slave market<\/a>\u00a0between Nashville and the\u00a0Natchez District<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Spanish West Florida<\/a>\u00a0via the\u00a0Mississippi River<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Natchez Trace<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

While boarding at the home of Rachel Stockly Donelson, the widow of\u00a0John Donelson<\/a>, Jackson became acquainted with their daughter, Rachel Donelson Robards. The younger Rachel was in an unhappy marriage with Captain\u00a0Lewis Robards<\/a>, and the two were separated by 1789.[<\/span>38]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0After the separation, Jackson and Rachel became romantically involved,[<\/span>39]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0living together as husband and wife.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>Robards petitioned for divorce, which was granted in 1793 on the basis of Rachel’s infidelity.\u00a0<\/sup>The couple legally married in January 1794.<\/sup>\u00a0In 1796, they acquired their first plantation,\u00a0Hunter’s Hill<\/a>, <\/sup>on 640 acres (260 ha) of land near Nashville.<\/p>\n

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Jackson became a member of the\u00a0Democratic-Republican Party<\/a>, the dominant party in Tennessee.<\/sup>\u00a0He was elected as a delegate to the Tennessee\u00a0constitutional convention<\/a>\u00a0in 1796.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0When Tennessee achieved statehood that year, he was elected to be its\u00a0U.S. representative<\/a>. In Congress, Jackson argued against the\u00a0Jay Treaty<\/a>, criticized\u00a0George Washington<\/a>\u00a0for allegedly removing Democratic-Republicans from public office, and joined several other Democratic-Republican congressmen in voting against a resolution of thanks for Washington.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>He advocated for the right of Tennesseans to militarily oppose Native American interests.<\/sup>The state legislature elected him to be a\u00a0U.S. senator<\/a>\u00a0in 1797, but he resigned after serving only six months.<\/sup><\/p>\n

In early 1798, Governor\u00a0John Sevier<\/a>\u00a0appointed Jackson to be a judge of the\u00a0Tennessee Superior Court<\/a>.[<\/span>49]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In 1802, he also became major general, or commander, of the\u00a0Tennessee militia<\/a>, a position that was determined by a vote of the militia’s officers. The vote was tied between Jackson and Sevier, a popular Revolutionary War veteran and former governor, but the governor,\u00a0Archibald Roane<\/a>, broke the tie in Jackson’s favor. Jackson later accused Sevier of fraud and bribery.<\/sup>Sevier responded by impugning Rachel’s honor, resulting in a shootout on a public street.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>\u00a0Soon afterwards, they met to duel, but parted without having fired at each other.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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