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Tarun Sai Bhadri

The American Experience | The Duel | People & Events | Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Bur... - 0 views

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  • On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr met on the dueling grounds at Weehawken, New Jersey, to fight the final skirmish of a long-lived political and personal battle.
    • Merritt Dudgeon
      Merritt Dudgeon on 04 Mar 14
       
      Why is the duel with Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr related to Andrew Jackson?
  • When the duel was over, Hamilton would be mortally wounded, and Burr would be wanted for murder.
  • The first major skirmish was in 1791, when Burr successfully captured a United States Senate seat from Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's powerful father-in-law. Hamilton, then Treasury secretary, would have counted on Schuyler to support his policies.
Jessica Fisher

Andrew Jackson Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com - 0 views

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  • he became a national war hero after defeating the British in New Orleans during the War of 1812
  • Jackson destroyed the National Bank, founded the Democratic Party
  • At age 13, he joined a local militia and served as a courier during the Revolutionary War
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  • In 1796, Jackson was a member of the convention that established the Tennessee Constitution and, that same year, was elected Tennessee's first representative in the U.S. House of Representative.
  • Senate the following year, but resigned after serving only eight month
  • War of 1812 he led his troops to victory against the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend,
  • After leading 5,000 soldiers in the defeat of 7,500 British in New Orleans, on January 8, 1815, Jackson was dubbed a national hero.
Matthew Wilkie

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  • The Andrew Jackson Presidential Dollar was released on August 14, 2008. This was the seventh coin in the Presidential Dollars series and the third release of 2008.
    • Matthew Wilkie
      Matthew Wilkie on 03 Mar 14
       
      Was Andrew Jackson in the era when a president could be reelected as many times as they wanted, or only allowed to serve two terms?
  • Nashville, Tennessee. This was President Jackson’s former home.
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  • A ceremonial “coin pour” of new Andrew Jackson Dollars took place. The public was invited to exchange their paper dollars for new dollar coins.
    • Matthew Wilkie
      Matthew Wilkie on 03 Mar 14
       
      Where these coins intended to take over paper money?
    • Matthew Wilkie
      Matthew Wilkie on 03 Mar 14
       
      Did the U.S. stop production of paper dollars so people would use the $1 Coins?
  • Andrew Jackson fought in the Revolutionary War and was a hero in the War of 1812. As President, he worked to strengthen the executive branch of the government, vetoing more bills than the prior six presidents combined.
  • The obverse was designed by Joel Iskowitz and sculpted by Jim Licaretz. The reverse was designed and sculpted by Don Everhart.
Dorian Wilson

Andrew Jackson Biography -7th President of the United States - 1 views

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  • the Democratic-Republican Party
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      Angelina R on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why did the Democratic-Republican party split?
  • In 1796, he served at the convention that created the Tennessee Constitution. He was elected in 1796 as Tennessee's first US Representative and then as US Senator in 1797 from which he resigned after eight months.
  • In May 1814 he was made Major General of the army fighting the War of 1812. On January 8, 1815, he defeated the British in New Orleans and was lauded as a hero.
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  • From 1838-39, troops led over 15,000 Cherokees from Georgia in what is called the Trail of Tears.
  • In 1824, Jackson ran for President against John Quincy Adams. He won the popular vote but the lack of an electoral majority resulted in the election being decided in the House.
  • Andrew Jackson was born either in North or South Carolina on March 15, 1767.
  • enforce the tariff
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      Angelina R on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why didn't Jackson let South Carolina use nullification?
  • favored the wealthy
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      Angelina R on 03 Mar 14
       
      What made Jackson think that the Second Bank would favor the wealthy over the common people?
  • 54% of the popular vote
Tarun Sai Bhadri

The 1828 Presidential Election < Andrew Jackson 1767-1845 A brief biography < Biographi... - 0 views

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  • All of Jackson's high-handed actions as General were brought up. One notable example was the "Coffin Handbill" featuring pictures of 6 coffins, and describing one-sidedly the story of some soldiers that Jackson had court-martialed and executed. Naturally, Jackson's record of dueling made good print for the opposition.
  • The South was adamantly anti-tariff, and prominent South Carolinians were on the verge of proclaiming a right to "Nullify" offensive national laws, with a threat of succession if Washington intervened by force.
  • In December, it had become obvious that Jackson won the election in a landslide. The count was 178 to 83 electoral votes, or 647,276 to 508,064 electoral votes.
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      Merritt Dudgeon on 04 Mar 14
       
      How did Andrew Jackson convince people that he was a president to vote for?
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  • On election day, in some places, Jackson men marched en masse to the polls, in a celebratory parade. An astonishing fact is that the number of voters counted nearly quadrupled over 1824. Four of the 24 states, including New York, took away property requirements for voting, so that basically all white males could vote.
  • Jackson as the least of two evils against the Adams-Clay alliance. And Adams was the very stereotype of New England with its disdain for the slave states and the poorly educated South and West.
  • Symbols of "Old Hickory" were everywhere. Large hickory poles erected in town squares or smaller ones attached to signs, steeples, and fore and aft on steam boats. In New York there was a parade a mile long. Hickory brooms also stood for 'Hickory' sweeping out the filth of corruption.
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      Tarun Sai Bhadri on 03 Mar 14
       
      What does Hickory have to do with a presidential election?
  • During the campaign, Jackson was mostly out of sight, as was thought proper for a presidential candidate.
    • Tarun Sai Bhadri
      Tarun Sai Bhadri on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why was Andrew Jackson out of sight during his presidential campaign? 
  • Yet they supported Jackson.
    • Tarun Sai Bhadri
      Tarun Sai Bhadri on 03 Mar 14
       
      I wonder if Southerner approved of Jackson's policies during his presidential term (even though they supported him to office)? 
Dorian Wilson

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  • After narrowly losing to John Quincy Adams in the contentious 1824 presidential election, Jackson returned four years later to win redemption
  • Jackson joined a convention charged with drafting the new Tennessee state constitution and became the first man to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee
    • Dorian Wilson
      Dorian Wilson on 03 Mar 14
       
      What was the tennessee constitution about?
  • served as a major general in the War of 1812, commanded U.S. forces in a five-month campaign against the Creek Indians, allies of the British
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  • Jackson’s supporters raged against what they called the “corrupt bargain” between Clay and Adams, and Jackson himself resigned from the Senate.
  • Jackson became the leader of the new Democratic Party.
  • Jackson became the leader of the new Democratic Party
  • Andrew Jackson took no action after Georgia claimed millions of acres of land that had been guaranteed to the Cherokee Indians under federal law
  • John C. Calhoun.
Jessica Fisher

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  • Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1796-97 United States Senator, 1797-98 Justice on Tennessee Supreme Court, 1798-1804 Governor of the Florida Territory, 1821 United States Senator, 1823-25
  • U.S. became debt free (briefly) for the only time in history.
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      Jessica Fisher on 04 Mar 14
       
      What did the U.S. do to break through the debt and why did they not stay above?
  • Jackson signs Treaty of New Echota with unrecognized leaders of Cherokee Nation, which allows him to force the Cherokees to move to land in what is now Oklahoma. 4,000 Native Americans die on this journey, also known as the Trail of Tears.
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      Jessica Fisher on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why did these leaders agree to sign the treaty?
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  • Jackson was the only president who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
  • Jackson was involved in many duels
    • Jessica Fisher
      Jessica Fisher on 04 Mar 14
       
      What events led to his capture (how did he get captured, where was he taken)?
Merritt Dudgeon

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    Introduction In the War of 1812, the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country's future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S.
Alberto Whitmer

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  • Andrew Jackson is the only president who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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  • The War of 1812 gave him the national recognition he would later need to win the presidency.
Tarun Sai Bhadri

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  • Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they never can be maintained. ... The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union. ---Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural Address, 1833
  • Jackson's military career, which had begun in the Revolution, continued in 1802 when he was elected major general of the Tennessee militia. Ten years later Tennessee Governor Willie Blount (of the North Carolina Blount family) gave him the rank of major general of U.S. forces. In 1814, after several devastating campaigns against Native Americans in the Creek War, he was finally promoted to major general in the regular army. Jackson also later led troops during the First Seminole War in Florida.
  • Jackson's opponents were Henry Clay of Kentucky, John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, and William H. Crawford of Georgia who were respectively speaker of the house, secretary of state, and secretary of the treasury.
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      Why were they opponents of Andrew Jackson?
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  • Jacksonians often referred to the 1824 election as the "Stolen Election" because while Jackson swept the popular vote hands down, he did not have enough electoral votes to automatically win the presidency. Therefore the election had to be decided by the House of Representatives.
  • Jackson believed in a strong presidency and he vetoed a dozen pieces of legislation, more than the first six presidents put together. Jackson also believed in a strong Union and this belief brought him into open opposition with Southern legislators, especially those from South Carolina.
  • Another major issue during Jackson's presidency was his refusal to sanction the recharter of the Bank of the United States. Jackson thought Congress had not had the authority to create the Bank in the first place, but he also viewed the Bank as operating for the primary benefit of the upper classes at the expense of working people. Jackson used one of his dozen vetoes, and the Bank's congressional supporters did not have enough votes to override him.
  • The Revolution took a toll on the Jackson family. All three boys saw active service. One of Andrew's older brothers, Hugh, died after the Battle of Stono Ferry, South Carolina in 1779, and two years later Andrew and his other brother Robert were taken prisoner for a few weeks in April 1781. While they were captives a British officer ordered them to clean his boots. The boys refused, the officer struck them with his sword and Andrew's hand was cut to the bone. Because of his ill treatment Jackson harbored a bitter resentment towards the British until his death.
    • Tarun Sai Bhadri
      Tarun Sai Bhadri on 03 Mar 14
       
      Was revenge part of Andrew Jackson's enthusiasm of war against the British? How did Andrew Jackson treat his British prisoners?
  • All his life Jackson was a loyal friend and a fierce enemy. This was never more true than during his years in politics at the national level beginning with the 1824 presidential election.
    • Tarun Sai Bhadri
      Tarun Sai Bhadri on 03 Mar 14
       
      I wonder whether any of his friends were disloyal or committed treason against him?
Andrew Plumaj

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    Andrew Jackson Born: Birthplace: Waxhaw, S.C. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in what is now generally agreed to be Waxhaw, S.C. After a turbulent boyhood as an orphan and a British prisoner, he moved west to Tennessee, where he soon qualified for law practice but found time for such frontier pleasures as horse racing, cockfighting, and dueling.
Merritt Dudgeon

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    Andrew Jackson ( March 15 , 1767 - June 8 , 1845 ) was the seventh ( 1829 - 1837 ) President of the United States, sometimes called "Old Hickory". Andrew Jackson's parents Andrew Jackson, Sr (c. 1730 - February , 1767 ) and Elizabeth "Betty" Hutchinson (c.
Camilla B

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      Why was he the only president not born of health? What did he do to be known as a man of the people? How was his life changed/affected after his wife died of a heart attack?
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