Andrew Jackson Outline

Introduction-The award winning Battle of New Orleans written by Johnny Horton was about Andrew Jackson and the battle of 1812.

Thesis- Andrew Jackson’s early life, presidency, political accomplishments, War general success, were all very important and interesting.

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. Jackson started studying law in Salisbury, North Carolina in his late teens. He had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician star by 1812. He had a lot of political success, he became the first frontier president and first chief executive who resided outside of either Massachusetts or Virginia (Marquis, pg. 50). He received very little school growing up as a kid and was raised by uncles since both of his parents had

passed when he was growing up. His dad had died 3 weeks after Andrew’s birth.
Jackson became the first president to widely replace incumbent office holders with his supporter (Marquis pg.50). He was the first president to invite the public to attend inauguration ball at the white house (Marquis pg. 50).
Andrew Jackson was also the first president to assume command with his veto power. This event earned Jackson the nickname “King Mob”. His military exploits made him a rising political star. Jackson was a excellent military leader, leading his troops on a five month campaign in the war of 1812. He earned a lot of thanks from the congress and a gold metal. His troops loved him and they always said he was as tough as “old hickory wood” which earned him the nickname “old hickory” (Marquis pg. 50).
Jackson was first and foremost a beneficiary of rising democratic spirit in the U.S. President Jackson actually missed the presidency in 1824, but still received the most electoral votes than anyone else (O’Brien). Perhaps the most significant presidential veto in American History was President Jackson’s rejection, in 1832, of the recharter bill, this bill would have rechartered the Bank of the United States (O’Brian).
President Jackson actually founded the democratic party which earned him the nickname “The Jackass”. With all of the popularity that Jackson had it almost took him into the presidency in the election of 1824. In 1829 Jackson, soundly defeated Adams and became the 7th president of the United States (Jackson). After he was done serving as president from 1829-1837 he happily returned home.
Andrew Jackson was widely known for his slaves. He owned black men, and killed red men (Kim pg.14). He actually died owning 150 slaves. Approximately 150 slaves worked at his hermitage in Nashville. A lot of people believe that slavery was a main part of his wealth. His hermitage was 1,000 acres with African American men, women, and children.
To me Andrew Jackson had a really weird personal/relationship life.

He met Rachel Donelson Robards, who was still married but not living with each other (Marquis pg. 50). Jackson and Rachel technically got married before she was even divorced in 1794. They never had any biological kids but adopted 3. The morning of his inauguration his wife Rachel died of a heart attack. A lot of people disagreed with their relationship they thought she was a bigamist. There were even newspaper articles about there relationship, and in one of them they thought that a person like here shouldn't be allowed in the white house. Which made president Jackson very angry and actually fought in duels with other people about it. In one of the duels he was shot a couple of times and a couple years after that the poison from the bullets eventually killed

him.
Jackson joined the military after his older brother had died in war when he was 13 years old. They both were caught and scared by the british, after jackson had and face were slashed after he refused to polish their boots (Marquis pg. 50).
Jackson lacked military experience and was still a major general of the Tennessee militia in 1802. He even led his forces into Spanish territory of Florida and captured pensacola on November 1814. Jackson led 5,000 soldiers to an unexpected victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the last major engagement of the war of 1812 (Marquis pg.50).
In 1824, state factions rallied around “old hickory,” and a Pennsylvania convention nominated him for the U.S.

presidency (Marquis pg. 50). Jackson did win the popular vote, but did not gain very many electoral college vote. Henry Clay was for jackson's opponent John Quincy Adams who won the election. Jackson accepted the loss, but when clay was named secretary of state, jacksons backers didn't like what happened and they thought it was a backroom deal that became known as the “Corrupt Bargain.”

After Jackson was done with war he decided he wanted to teach, but didn’t like it at all and that's when he decided he wanted to be a lawyer. He started when he was 17 in North Carolina. On June 1796, Tennessee was separated from North Carolina and became the 16th state. Soon after Jackson became the state's first congressman. A year after he was elected U.S. Senator but was only there for 1 year then he resigned. After he resigned he returned home and served for six years as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme court (Andrew

Jackson).
Jackson liked to call his election the “Stolen Election” because he swept the election no doubt about it in the popular votes. But he didn't win the electoral votes to automatically win so it came down to the House of Representative. His opponents John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford. The Kentuckian had gave his support to Adams on the first ballot, and Adams was eventually elected (Andrew Jackson). Andrew Jackson was not happy with the result and would never forgive his opponents.
Leading up the the election of 1828 Jackson still wasn't happy with the Adams Administration. Jackson’s anger had been relieved when he won the election of 1828 and four years later defeated Henry Clay (Andrew Jackson). But during the election Adams camp had charged Jackson and his wife with adultery.
Jackson was seemed to be the first to do everything during his presidency. He was the first populist president who did not come from aristocracy, he was the first to have his vice-president resign John C. Calhoun, he was the first to marry a divorcee, he was the first to be nominated at a national convention his second term, he was the first to use informal “Kitchen Cabinet” of advisers, and the first president to use “pocket veto” to kill a congressional bill (Andrew Jackson).
But Jackson also had some major issues, like where he refused to approve the recharter of the Bank of the United States. Jackson thought that the congress did not have the permission to do this he thought it would benefit the upper class working people. The congress did not have enough votes to override him and the bank was shut down (Andrew Jackson).

Jackson health was a big problem during his later years of presidency, it got to a point where people thought that jackson wouldn't make it to complete his term, but he did surprisingly. He would then return to his home in Nashville to what he called “The Hermitage” to what was just a very small cabin. But that small cabin was rebuilt and expanded.
Jackson would eventually die on June 8, 1845 and his hermitage would be passed on to one of the kids him and his wife Rachael adopted and named him Andrew Jackson Jr. But Jackson Jr. went into debt and was forced to sell the Hermitage and it is now open to the public today (Andrew Jackson).
So in conclusion Andrew Jackson to me was a mixed president, he did a lot of good things and a lot of bad things. He was a very popular during his president term. He was responsible for the “trail of tears” which was a bad thing, but also the first to do a lot of things during his presidency. Growing up the life he did and being captured and orphaned you never would've thought he would be the 7th president of the United States.