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Reagan H

Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in duel - History.com This Day in History - 5/30... - 1 views

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  • President Andrew Jackson kills a man who accused him of cheating on a horse race bet
    • Reagan H
      Reagan H on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why would something like cheating on a horse race bet lead to a duel and ultimately murder?
  • Estimates of the number of duels in which Jackson participated ranged from five to 100.
    • Reagan H
      Reagan H on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why did Jackson have so many disputes that couldn't be settled verbally?
  • Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel.
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  • At the first signal from their seconds, Dickinson fired. Jackson received Dickinson's first bullet in the chest next to his heart.
  • Jackson re-cocked the gun and shot again, this time killing his opponent.
    • Reagan H
      Reagan H on 03 Mar 14
       
      Was Jackson's goal to kill Dickinson?
  • Jackson was not prosecuted for murder, and the duel had very little effect on his successful campaign for the presidency in 1829.
Basheer Mossallam

Andrew Jackson 1767-1845 A brief biography < Biographies < American History From Revolu... - 0 views

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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?
  • 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".
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • in 1837 a depression struck, which many blamed on Jackson's slaying of the Bank.
Jacob Acey

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  • Jacksonian Democracy is the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
  • The Federalist Party and the First Party System were dead, and with no effective opposition, the old Democratic-Republican Party withered away.
  • Jackson fulfilled his promise of broadening the influence of the citizenry in government, although not without vehement controversy over his methods
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  • Jackson's equal political policy became known as "Jacksonian Democracy", subsequent to ending what he termed a "monopoly" of government by elites
  • "stretches the concept of democracy about as far as it can go and still remain workable....As such it has inspired much of the dynamic and dramatic
  • Jackson's biographer Robert V. Remini argues that Jacksonian Democracy,
  • events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in American history—Populism, Progressivism, the New and Fair Deals, and the programs of the New Frontier and Great Society."[2]
    • Jacob Acey
      Jacob Acey on 05 Mar 14
       
      I wonder what would have happened if the jacksonian democracy just didn't work? luike Robert V. Remini said; it "stretches the concept of democracy about as far as it can go and still remain workable". what if it din't work?
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    Jacksonian democracy
Kristen Harvey

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  • Kristen Harvey on 04 Mar 14
     
    What from his childhood pushed Andrew Jackson into becoming president?
  • Kristen Harvey on 04 Mar 14
     
    As a child who was Andrew Jackson's biggest mentor?
  • Kristen Harvey on 04 Mar 14
     
    Why did Andrew Jackson want to become a lawyer?
Dorian Wilson

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

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  • the Democratic-Republican Party
    • Angelina R
      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
    • Angelina R
      Angelina R on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why didn't Jackson let South Carolina use nullification?
  • favored the wealthy
    • Angelina R
      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

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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.
    • Merritt Dudgeon
      Merritt Dudgeon on 04 Mar 14
       
      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?
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.
Andrew Plumaj

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  • More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as President he sought to act as the direct representative of the common man.
    • Lauren Curran
      Lauren Curran on 03 Mar 14
       
      Who suggested Andrew Jackson to run for president?
  • by 1828 enough had joined "Old Hickory" to win numerous state elections and control of the Federal administration in Washington.
    • Lauren Curran
      Lauren Curran on 03 Mar 14
       
      When did his first come up with the idea of "Old Hickory"?
  • Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Whig leaders proclaimed themselves defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson
    • Lauren Curran
      Lauren Curran on 03 Mar 14
       
      Why did they not want it?
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  • Jackson met head-on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariff.
  • Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its recharter in Congress
  • But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee.
  • Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel killed a man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel.
  • He was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate
  • Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education
    • Caroline Morris
      Caroline Morris on 03 Mar 14
       
      How was Andrew Jackson able to make up for his incomplete education and still become a lawyer?
  • Michael Scott on 03 Mar 14
     
    in the duel did Andrew Jackson purposely kill the other man?
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  • Michael Scott on 03 Mar 14
     
    what was the insult to Mrs.Jackson that started the duel?
  • Michael Scott on 04 Mar 14
     
    who was the other person in the duel?
  • Andrew Plumaj on 04 Mar 14
     
    Why did hennry clay make insults about ms.jackson When did andrew jackson get married Why was it such an affence to the rest of the united states
Jessica Fisher

Presidents of the United States (POTUS) - Andrew Jackson - 1 views

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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.
    • Jessica Fisher
      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.
    • Jessica Fisher
      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)?
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