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    show Should Andrew Jackson be removed off of the 20 dollar bill? I believe Andrew Jackson should be removed off of the 20 dollar because he was cruel towards the American Indians and He only supported the white males. He also supported the Indian removal act and He acted like a king. Although he did some positive things such as creating the spoils system, and contributing to the democracy by allowing more people to vote. Andrew Jackson doesn’t deserve to represent us as americans. Andrew…

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    Jackson was democratic to a certain extent. To Andrew Jackson democracy meant that all agencies and branches of the government (presidents, congress, and more.) must follow and listen to the peoples wishes. Proven in documents 2 how all “white men” should be treated equally, but not everybody thought the same about Jackson. Many thought that Jackson behaved more like a king than a democrat. So Jackson was more towards the middle due to somethings things he has done. Before Jackson was elected,…

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    Andrew Jackson was the first president that did not come from a colonial family. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants who were poor. They came to the Carolina’s within the second half of the eighteenth century. Just before he was born, his father was killed. Jackson soon became an attorney, when he had learned more about the law. He knew a lot about farming and the land to grow wealthy, when he was fighting with the Indians. Jackson would have not been much different than John Quincy Adams.…

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    Early Days 1720-1865, Early History of Mississippi Early settlers of Southwestern Mississippi would write back home and would write about the abundance of this new place. One Mississippi immigrant described his new home as “a wide empty country with a soil that yields such noble crops that any man is sure to succeed.” Another new settler wrote to family back in Maryland that “the crops [here] are certain… and abundance spreads the table of the poor man and contentment smiles on every…

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    When will the end come? The question that is proposed to Christopher Marlowe after he writes "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". He writes this poem to a lady, and intends for her to fall in love with him. Unfortunately the outcome may take a turn for the worst. Sir Walter Raleigh writes "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" as a reply from the lady to Marlowe. Marlowe writes about the date and love that he has prepared for the lady of his dreams. A night filled with romance and love.…

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    Should our Andrew Jackson, our 7th president be on the twenty-dollar bill? Many people have very biased opinions on this topic. Some people believe that he should because of his bravery and all of his accomplishments. Others despise him so much that they wouldn’t even dare to carry around a twenty dollar bill. In this paper I am going to be writing about why Jackson should and why Jackson should not be on the twenty dollar bill and you are going to learn about all of the good and bad things that…

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    Andrew Jackson: A. Was the first man to serve in U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee. B. Served as President Monroe’s secretary of state before he became president in 1825. C. Supported a national bank. D. Worked hard to revive the Federalist Party, and in fact, he and his followers recreated this party for themselves. E. Served as president of a free and independent Republic of Florida. A is the correct answer. Andrew Jackson was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of…

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    John Wilkes Booth was a noted actor and Confederate sympathizer. He had planned initially to kidnap President Lincoln, hoping to exchange him for Confederate prisoners. Plans were made among a small group of conspirators to carry out the kidnapping in March 1865, on a day when Lincoln was scheduled to attend a function at a Washington hospital. At the last moment, the president’s plans were changed and Booth’s plot was neutralized. On April 11, two days after Lee`s surrender, Lincoln spoke to a…

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    Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 and died in 1845. As he grew up he was living in poverty. But later in his life he became wealthy as a very good Tennessee lawyer. And from that practice of being a lawyer, he started getting interested in the government and became a young politician in 1812. But he started being a politician when war broke with the US and Britain. He earned a lot of national fame because of his leadership in the conflict of the war and became a military hero. He is also soon to…

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    Imagine being forced out of a home and forced to march to new land. That is exactly what the Cherokee tribe had to go through. The Cherokee Tribe wanted peace with the United States and wanted to live peacefully without battles, however Andrew Jackson, who was currently president, wanted the Cherokee Tribe out. The Cherokee Tribe even went to Supreme Court so they would not be forced out of their land, but it was the president’s orders to force the tribe out. So, they packed what they had and…

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