Andrew Jackson's Role In American History

The story of America’s seventh president, is a story greatly interconnected with American history in the time in which he lived. Andrew Jackson rose from an impoverished youth, to military hero, to become one of the most celebrated Presidents in American history, as the nation grew into maturity. By grit and determination Andrew Jackson broke the mold cast by the elites in early American history, charting a new path for the American public, and forever altering the course of American history.

The family history of Andrew Jackson was unlike any early Presidents early family history, he was not born to into the family of a wealthy lawyer or diplomat, or to a prominent political family. Andrew Jackson’s mother and father Andrew and Elizabeth, were born in Ireland, what is now in modern day considered Northern Ireland in 1765, yearning in their youth to travel to the American continent, they sailed with their two sons, Hugh and Robert, to America. The Jacksons settled with fellow Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the Waxhaws region that straddled North and South Carolina. Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, his parents were Scots-Irish colonists to the American colonies. “Jackson's father had been

With constant partisan fighting, a constitutional nullification crisis in South Carolina that almost brought the nation to the brink of civil war, and without the company of his dear wife, Jackson faced a miserable presidency. In modern day one of his most controversial incidents was the Indiana Removal Act which removed many native Americans across what became known as the trail of tears to the western portion of the United States. When Jackson left office in 1837, he would leave the United States in the midst of a recession, his successor his own Vice President Martin Van Buren would be faced to deal with the short comings of the Jackson administration, thus leading to his unsuccessful reelection bid in