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    Robert Morgan claims in the text were reasonable because in the fourth paragraph in the book “Lions of The West” by: Robert Morgan, it states “Andrew Jackson probably did more to extend democratic power to a greater number of citizens of the nation in that era than anyone except Jefferson.” (Morgan 2).This quote tells you that Robert Morgan stereotypes and claims that although Jefferson did do more to extend a democratic power to a greater number of citizens of the nation than Jackson he is…

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    What makes journalists intriguing is their ability not only to cover stories but write news in a way society could appeal to it. Although it’s a digital era where technology influence the way how society thinks and act, press eras’ in the past approached their audience with some newsworthy topics. Each era of different presses has been around to witness historical events that occurred in America. Some of these events catapulted the presses’ success to distribute news which might’ve created…

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    I think that for the past 8-16 years, the Democratic Party has had the best candidates between Democrat and RepublicanDemocrat Party is a political epithet used in the United States for the Democratic Party. The term has been used in negative or hostile fashion by conservative commentators and members of the Republican Party in party platforms, partisan speeches and press releases since at least 1940. The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United…

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    John Adams Who is John Adams? John Adams was born on October 30th, 1735, into a family that was not wealthy. He had earned a scholarship to attend Harvard, and decided to study law. Two years after he graduated Harvard, he was admitted into the bar. John Adams soon later became the 2nd President of the United States, but before he became the 2nd President, he was the first vice president of the United States, next to George Washington. During his presidency, he wasn’t a popular president so he…

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    Andrew Jackson President Andrew Jackson barred the proposed bill re-chartering the Second Bank of United States in July 1832. He disputed that the bill, in the form with which it had been presented to him, was totally incompatible with sound policy and justice as well as the constitution. In the veto message, the President argued that the Bank’s license was completely unfair by virtue of the fact that it gave the bank extensive, almost monopolistic power in the market particularly in the…

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    “Inskeep, Steve. Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab. Penguin Group USA, 2016” In Jacksonland by Steve Inskeep talks about the different states and different territories that were divided by the “white men “and American Indians own concepts of democracy. Inskeep interlaces together the stories of Andrew Jackson a general, president and author of the Indian removal and John Ross chief of the Cherokee. Throughout this book Inskeep shows…

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    State of Georgia, which stated that the state of Georgia did not have jurisdiction in the Indian territory. Jackson’s support of national law was not present with this ruling, he did not see the ruling as valid and stated “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it (Foner, 386).” This resistance was seen when Jackson removed federal troops from protecting the Indians when miners illegally crossed the Cherokee Border. Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act…

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    Chapter three is titled ‘Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism’. The starting point of the chapter is speaking about how Andrew Jackson became important on the Tennessee frontier. It says that he was born on a farm in the Carolinas, and he lacked much education. During his teen years he was interested in gambling. When not doing this, though, he studied the law. Jackson worked for creditors, which gained him gratitude from merchants. He later accepted an appointment as a public…

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    Andrew Jackson War Hero

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    Born during a time of uncertainty and rebellion, Andrew Jackson rose up amongst the chaos and first became a war hero, and later, the seventh president of the United States. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15th, 1767, to Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson in the Waxhaws region. Although the exact location of the Waxhaws region is unknown due to the lack of the border being surveyed, it is believed that it was somewhere along the border of North and South Carolina. Unfortunately, Jackson’s father died…

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    Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732, he was one of six children. His mother and father were Gabriel and Charlotte Marion. He was born on his parents’ plantation and lived there for the first five years of his life in Berkley County, South Carolina. Then his family settled down on a plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina. Although he wasn’t very educated, he was one of the great partisan leaders of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the War for Independence. He was…

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