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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
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      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.
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