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- Basheer Mossallam on 03 Mar 14
  
  Why did Andrew Jackson want to be a lawyer, plantation owner and judge in Tennessee? Why did he resign his Senator position after a year? Why was Thomas Hart Benton Andrew Jackson's enemy and why did he make peace with him while he was a member of the Senate?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why did Andrew Jackson want to be a lawyer, plantation owner and judge in Tennessee? Why did he resign his Senator position after a year? Why was Thomas Hart Benton Andrew Jackson's enemy and why did he make peace with him while he was a member of the Senate?</div>
  
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In 1828, Jackson won a landslide victory. The new Democratic Party, which he helped forge, brought to an end the temporary vacuum of parties in American politics sometimes called the "Era of Good Feelings".
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During the War of 1812, he managed - with difficulty due to some enemies he had made - to get into action in important theatres. In between subduing various Indian tribes, he won, in New Orleans by far the greatest American victory in the war.
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He lived from 1767 to 1845.
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The 1832 campaign for Jackson's reelection was fought in the midst of two crises. One was triggered by Jackson's veto of the bill to renew the Bank's charter.
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in 1837 a depression struck, which many blamed on Jackson's slaying of the Bank.
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