Andrew Jackson Old Hickory

Old Hickory Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was the first president to come from an upbringing that was unlike his opponents. South Carolina, in the year 1767, Andrew was born and shortly after he was orphaned as a youth. Even at his young age, he still displayed his infamous traits of courage and passion which followed him throughout his life. As he grew older he moved to Tennessee, where he decided to study law. It was then that he became interested in the local politics and in the 1790s he won the election to the House of Representatives and the Senate. Before long he was a Judge on the state supreme court. At a young age Jackson joined the regimen for the Revolutionary War, which is just one of many battles
These developments included the westward movement, the market revolution, the expansion of slavery, and the rapid growth of the democracy. Both the expansion of the west and the market revolution proved to be tied to a third central division of American freedom which was political democracy. During the time of Jackson's presidency the democracy was changing. White males who were originally excluded from any political participation were now able to take part in political events. American democracy still had a long way to go to get where it is today. During the Age of Jackson the democracy was taking in those poor white men that were native born along with immigrants to the United States, however, it still excluded women and non-white men. Such exclusions of this era were evident of the American ideology that women and non-whites were inferior to white men, they had characteristics that were seen as fixed by nature. To many Jackson was a symbol for the self-made man. He started with essentially nothing to his name and became the most popular president to date. During Jacksons run as president, the Americans believed he symbolized the triumph of political democracy. Throughout the mid to late 1800s politicians had the popularity of what rock stars have today. They were heroes with a magnitude of followers and many were given nicknames, Jacksons' was Old Hickory respectively. Jackson was also a
He started out as a New York Senator and the man who took it upon himself as one of Jackson's supporters who organized the election of 1828. Buren would often disagree with then president, John Quincy Adams, who embodied the old political views and background. Adams came from a father who was a president and he was known as being an intellectual man. Buren, on the other hand, came from a humble background as the son of a tavern keeper. He was a party manager, but was not known for his intellects. Intellects aside, he vastly changed political America. His vision for America was one in which the nation had organized political parties which proved to be a necessary and a desirable part of political life. This idea was immensely different than the political system during this time period which was known as being dangerous and decisive. Together with Andrew Jackson these two men started in what is now known as the Democratic Party or as others call it the Jacksonian