Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born into a recently emigrated Scotch-Irish farming family on March 15th, 1767, near the border between North and South Carolina. At the age of thirteen Jackson was captured, during the American Revolutionary war, by British captors while he helped during the war as a courier. His brother, Robert Jackson, was also with him and died just a few days after being released by the British on April 17th, 1781. After a short seven months, his mother died as well in November of 1781. With Jackson's father who had died not long after he was born meant that he would be left as an orphan at the early age of fourteen years old. Jackson blamed the British for all of his losses which lead him to form a deep hatred for the British.
He later became a lawyer, as well as elected into the House of Representivates, and then to the U.S senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tenessee militia which became his military base. He gained national fame through his involvement in the War of 1812 where he won many victories over the Indians, and also as well in the Battle of New Orleans were he helped fight off the main British invasion.
In 1824, Andrew Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams during nomination for the presidency and then won the 1828 election. With Jackson's presidency, he began a political movement called the Jacksonian democracy. This belief system was surrounded around the ideology that central government is the enemy for individual liberty which Jackson advocated. Jackson believed that government intervention in the economy profited particular vested parties and made corporate restraining infrastructures that supported the rich. He looked to restore the autonomy of the individual by ending federal banks and enterprises and confining the utilization of paper money. Jackson's main philosophy's was surrounded by expanded suffrage, manifest destiny, patronage, strict constructionism, and banking that did not involve the central government.
He later became a lawyer, as well as elected into the House of Representivates, and then to the U.S senate. In 1801, Jackson was appointed colonel in the Tenessee militia which became his military base. He gained national fame through his involvement in the War of 1812 where he won many victories over the Indians, and also as well in the Battle of New Orleans were he helped fight off the main British invasion.
In 1824, Andrew Jackson lost to John Quincy Adams during nomination for the presidency and then won the 1828 election. With Jackson's presidency, he began a political movement called the Jacksonian democracy. This belief system was surrounded around the ideology that central government is the enemy for individual liberty which Jackson advocated. Jackson believed that government intervention in the economy profited particular vested parties and made corporate restraining infrastructures that supported the rich. He looked to restore the autonomy of the individual by ending federal banks and enterprises and confining the utilization of paper money. Jackson's main philosophy's was surrounded by expanded suffrage, manifest destiny, patronage, strict constructionism, and banking that did not involve the central government.
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