Agenda:

Known
for
being
aonce
While
attending
ato funeral
In
1798,
notorious
rogue
Russell
Bean

Jackson
is
the
Shortly
after
his
marriage
Rachel
Donelson
 Andrew
Andrew
Jackson
The
White
House
has
seen
its
Robards ina1791,
Andrew
Jackson
was
dismayed
created
disturbance
outside
the
service
in
the
Capitol
Rotunda
unafraid
to
speak
his
to
learn
that
she
was
still
technically
married
reason
why
the
share
of
memorable
pets.
Nixon's
courthouse
infourteen
a smalla legitimate
town
in divorceto
placed
a
her first
husband.
Though
one
day,
President
Andrew
dog
inspired
his
famous
Tennessee.
No
one,
the
mind,
or
beat
people
was eventually
obtained
and
thesheriff
Jacksonswith
Democratic
party’s
Jackson
was
approached
by
remarried,
the
scandal
elicited
much
discussion
included,
proved
willing
or
able
toa
"Checkers"
speech.
Bill
Clinton's
hundred-pound
cheese
and more
than
a few
jokes
- including
one
from
his
Hickory
cane
(which
isa
house
painter
named
Richard
arrest
the
heavily
armed
man,
who
mascot
is
the
Donkey.
cat
(Socks)
inspired
many
jokes
certain
Charles Dickinson.
Though
Dickinson
was
in
the
Cross
Hall
and
promised
to
shoot
the
first
person
Lawrence.
Lawrence
got
within
famed
for
his
marksmanship,
Jackson,
bent
onto
on
late
night
television.
John
why
they
called
him
Old
Why
you
may
ask?
defending
his
come
within
tenname,
feet
ofan
him.
Quincy
Adams
keptimmediately
alligator in
six
feet
ofwife's
Jackson
before
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invited
public
in
totook
challenged himthe
toJackson
a duel.
Thoughsaid
Dickinson
Hickory),
Because
his
opponents
the
Easttwo
Room.
Teddy
Roosevelt
aim quickly
and
fired
first,
theand
impact
of his
aiming
pistols
pulling
bullet was
blunted
by two
Jackson's
loose
coat
and
eat
Hearing
this,
They
Andrew
came
Jackson,
in
then
had
ait.
lion
and
bear
cubs.
this
when
what
his
the
triggers.
often
called
an
merely
broke
one ofasked
hishim
ribs. When
Jackson
serving
the
town's
presiding
judge,
Woodrow
Wilson
had
a misfired.
tobaccoattempted as
to return
the favor,
he
droves,
eating
and
Incredibly,
both
guns
misfired.
biggest
regret
was
during
collected
pistols
and
sought
Bean
unflattering
term
chewing his
ram
named
Ike...
out
himself.
his
through
(Lawrence
was
arrested
and
Unfortunately
forMaking
Dickinson,
theway
rules
required
treading
crumbs
into
his
presidency.
associated
with
donkeys,
the
crowd,
he
coolly
approached
that he
stand his
groundexamination,
while Jackson triedthe
a
his
guns,
upon
second
time.
He
could
only
watch
in
horror
as
troublemaker,
pistols
in
hand,
and
And
Andrew
Jackson?
He
had
a his
the
carpets,
and
the
and
then
adopted
“(That)
I
didn’t
shoot
were
found
to
be
in
good
rival
reloaded;
Jackson
then
carefully
took
aim,
demanded,
"Surrender
this
instant,
or
parrot,
Polly,
who
was
taught
toto
and
promptly
shot
and
killed
him.
"I
intended
working
order.)
The
bullets
I'll
blowin
you
through!"
To
animal
during
his
Henry
Clay
Ifor
didn’t
smell
lingered
kill him,"
Jackson
laterand
declared.
"Ieveryone's
would have
curse
English
and
Spanish
stood
up
long
enough
to
kill
him
if
he
had
put a
astonishment,
Bean
meekly
allowed
reported
to
be
too
afraid
of
and
had
to
be
removed
during
bullet
in
my
brain."
Dickinson
had
been
26-0
in
campaign
out
of
spite.
hang
John
C.
Calhoun
weeks.
himself
toto
beduels.
led
away.
Jackson
shoot
him
his
previous
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Jackson's funeral in 1845 when it
wouldn't stop 'practicing'!
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Andrew Jackson is a man of many titles:
◦ President
◦ War Hero
◦ Indian Hunter
Gains popularity because of the Battle of New
Orleans
His presidency is conflicting because Jackson is
seen as a hero and a villain
◦ Hero: First common person to become president,
kept the nation together in time of need
◦ Villain: Responsible for the Trail of Tears: the
removal of the Cherokee and other Native
Americans from the SE United States
◦ Invasion of Florida
 Without the Presidents
permission, Andrew
Jackson attacked
Spanish Florida to fight
the Seminole Indians
 Spain then sells Florida
to America
◦ Significance: Jackson’s
popularity rises,
confirms his feelings
toward Native
Americans
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The Corrupt Bargain
◦ Jackson runs for President against John
Quincy Adams
◦ Election to close to call, HoR gets to vote on
who will be president
◦ Adams strikes deal with Henry Clay
 Clay= Get votes to make Adams President
 Adams= Makes Clay his Secretary of State
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Significance: Jackson vows revenge,
spends four years campaigning against
Adams and wins next election
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Will be different from
other presidents
because…
◦ He was uneducated
◦ He grew up poor
◦ From the “west”
(Tennessee)
◦ Campaigned to get
people’s votes
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Nullification Crisis
◦ Nullification: a constitutional theory that gives a
state the right to reject any law passed by the
United States Congress
◦ The National Government passed a tariff that
Southern states disliked.
 Made it harder to sell cash crops to Europe
◦ South Carolina threatens to secede (leave the United
States) unless the government gets rid of the tariff
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Jackson’s response:
◦ Threatens military force if
South Carolina does not
enforce the treaty
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A compromise is reached
and things return to normal
Significance: South Carolina
almost leaves the United States
over States’ rights; foreshadows
the Civil War.
◦ Conflict erupted between
Native Americans and
American settlers in SE
United States
◦ Jackson was being
pressured to take
Cherokee land
 Settling on Cherokee land
was illegal but still being
done
 Georgia grew impatient and
took the Cherokees’ land
 Rumors of gold on the land
lead to faster settlement
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To handle the issue,
Jackson pushed for two
things:
◦ Created an Indian Territory
(Oklahoma) where the
Cherokee, Creek, Seminole,
Chickasaw and Choctaw will
be relocated
◦ Passed the Indian Removal
Act: Law forcing the Native
Americans off their land in
two years.
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Worchester v. Georgia
◦ The Cherokee sue the
government over their forced
relocation; Supreme Court
rules the Natives should not
have to move
◦ Significance: Jackson ignores
the Supreme Court, moves
forward with the removal
 Only president to ever directly
defy the Supreme Court
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In all, 100,000 Native
Americans were forced off
their land by the US
military
The Cherokee walked over
800 miles from Georgia to
Oklahoma
Suffered through…
◦ Disease
◦ Dehydration and Starvation
◦ Physical abuse
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Approximately ¼ of the
Cherokee will die on the
trail