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Andrew Jackson Downfall

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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America. He was born March 15, 1767 in Lancaster Columbia, South Carolina and died June 8, 1845 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was the middle child of three boys. Jackson was raised by his mother when a sudden death took his father away at the age of twenty- nine. Jackson was seven weeks old when he died. He survived the captivity of the British while his other two brothers died of illness. After he was let free, his mother died from illness, leaving Jackson an orphan at the age of fourteen. He was elected president in 1829. He was married to Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson in 1794 until her death from illness in 1828. Jackson blames his political rivals for her death. Jackson had …show more content…

He had many good ideas and did many great things for our country. Andrew Jackson was the first president to run on the democratic party. He created it because he disagreed on all the other parties that were running against him and didn't want to be apart of them. He also served in the Revolutionary War and was a major general in the War of 1812. Jackson was a firm believer in fighting with his men and surrender was never in his vocabulary. Like he said in one of his quotes.”Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.” And also he couldn't have said it better when John Meachem said about Jackson. “Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking.” He was so determined to win he was shot in the Revolutionary War and he lived with a bullet in his heart until his death. The things is the bullet never seemed to bother him and was not a cause of his death. He was also the first Senator of Tennessee and the first Governor of Florida. He also was the first president censured by the Senate. Jackson was also the first president to be targeted for assassination. His greatest accomplishment was that he paid off national debt while in office. No other president to this day has ever done that. We were no longer in debt until he got out of

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