Ms.Kowatnick
History
10 March, 2017
Andrew Jackson was born in North or South Carolina on March 15, 1767. His mother took care of him by herself. She later died once Jackson was only 14. After, both brothers in the war and had nobody else but his two uncles to raise him. He received a upright education by private tutors when he was still very young. This was usually a rich commodity but his uncles worked very hard to give him the best he deserves. When he was 15, he went back to school before becoming a lawyer in 1787.
Andrew Jackson got his name from his father. He passed away in 1767, the same year his son Andrew was born. Andrew Jackson’s mother was known as Elizabeth Hutchanson. During the American Revolution, she was a nurse. …show more content…
In May 1814 he became Major General of the army. On January 8, 1815, he overpowered the British in New Orleans and was praised as a hero. Jackson also served in the 1st Seminole War (1817-19) when he defeated the Spanish Governor in Florida. Andrew Jackson was a lawyer in North Carolina and then went on to Tennessee to establish a different life style. In 1796, he assisted at the convention that created the Tennessee Constitution. He was elected in 1797 as Tennessee's first US Representative and then as the senator of the United States in 1797 from which he resigned after eight …show more content…
Many Southern states desired to preserve states' rights. They were upset concluded tariffs, and when, in 1831, Jackson signed a moderate tariff, North Carolina felt they had the right through "nullification" (the confidence that a state could rule something unconstitutional) to ignore it. Jackson set upright against South Carolina, prepared to use the military if needed to enforce the tariff. In 1834, a compromise tariff was enacted that assisted mollify the sectional differences for a time.
In 1832, Jackson vetoed the Second Bank of the United State charter. He believed the government could not constitutionally generate such a bank and that it favored the rich over the common people. This action led to federal money being placed into state banks who then loaned it out generously leading to inflation. Jackson stopped the easy credit by wanting all land purchases be made in gold or silver which would have consequences in 1836.
Jackson reinforced Georgia's expulsion of the Indians from there land to reservations in the West. He used the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to force them to move, even discounting the Supreme Court ruling in Georgia, that said they could not be enforced to move. From 1838-39, groups led over 16,000 Cherokees from Georgia in what is so-called the Trail of