Andrew Jackson Biography Essay
In early march of 1767, a miracle was born named Andrew Jackson. His father was never able to meet him, he had died before Jackson was birthed. No one thought he would be the 7th president of the United States. In his childhood, Jackson was an orphan, a soldier and a prisoner.He experienced pain, emotional and physical. He experienced war and death. His two brothers had died, one in war and the other of heatstroke when being held prisoner with Jackson. All of his immediate family was gone, before he turned fifteen. Jackson went to local schools as a boy and had a small amount of a higher education. Little did he know, the little education he was able to receive would help him in his political career later on in life. Andrew Jackson had an
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“ Following his anonymous printing of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in 1828, Vice President John C. Calhoun suggests that his state of South Carolina annul the federally imposed protective cotton tariff. Jackson threatens to deploy federal troops to occupy the state in the event of nullification.”("Miller Center"). Calhoun wanted to discipline Jackson because he wanted to use military forces as a way to stop the majority of problems in their nation. This caused a lot of tension between the two as the years go on in his presidency. In the same year came the Trail of Tears, Jackson had removed five native american tribes out of their homeland and moved them onto reservations where they could not follow their own beliefs and they were not able to live the way those native americans once did. There were military forces used when a tribe fought for their land. They were bribed to be relocated onto reservations. Although most of them were moved; some were able to stay on their land by hiding and waiting. Death was all around the native americans as the walked the Trail of Tears. Around the same time, Jackson was dealing with other concerns that were made by the public with the assistance of the government. For example, the people wanted the national debt to be abolished. On the other spectrum, Jackson had a treaty signed by France that the French would pay five million dollars because of the Napoleonic Wars. Lastly, people could not pay for land with money, they had to pay in gold and
“ Following his anonymous printing of the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in 1828, Vice President John C. Calhoun suggests that his state of South Carolina annul the federally imposed protective cotton tariff. Jackson threatens to deploy federal troops to occupy the state in the event of nullification.”("Miller Center"). Calhoun wanted to discipline Jackson because he wanted to use military forces as a way to stop the majority of problems in their nation. This caused a lot of tension between the two as the years go on in his presidency. In the same year came the Trail of Tears, Jackson had removed five native american tribes out of their homeland and moved them onto reservations where they could not follow their own beliefs and they were not able to live the way those native americans once did. There were military forces used when a tribe fought for their land. They were bribed to be relocated onto reservations. Although most of them were moved; some were able to stay on their land by hiding and waiting. Death was all around the native americans as the walked the Trail of Tears. Around the same time, Jackson was dealing with other concerns that were made by the public with the assistance of the government. For example, the people wanted the national debt to be abolished. On the other spectrum, Jackson had a treaty signed by France that the French would pay five million dollars because of the Napoleonic Wars. Lastly, people could not pay for land with money, they had to pay in gold and