Andrew Jackson Outline

Introduction-The award winning Battle of New Orleans written by Johnny Horton was about Andrew Jackson and the battle of 1812.

Thesis- Andrew Jackson’s early life, presidency, political accomplishments, War general success, were all very important and interesting.

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. Jackson started studying law in Salisbury, North Carolina in his late teens. He had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician star by 1812. He had a lot of political success, he became the first frontier president and first chief executive who resided outside of either Massachusetts or Virginia (Marquis, pg. 50). He received very little school growing up as a kid and was raised by uncles since both of his parents had

He met Rachel Donelson Robards, who was still married but not living with each other (Marquis pg. 50). Jackson and Rachel technically got married before she was even divorced in 1794. They never had any biological kids but adopted 3. The morning of his inauguration his wife Rachel died of a heart attack. A lot of people disagreed with their relationship they thought she was a bigamist. There were even newspaper articles about there relationship, and in one of them they thought that a person like here shouldn't be allowed in the white house. Which made president Jackson very angry and actually fought in duels with other people about it. In one of the duels he was shot a couple of times and a couple years after that the poison from the bullets eventually killed

presidency (Marquis pg. 50). Jackson did win the popular vote, but did not gain very many electoral college vote. Henry Clay was for jackson's opponent John Quincy Adams who won the election. Jackson accepted the loss, but when clay was named secretary of state, jacksons backers didn't like what happened and they thought it was a backroom deal that became known as the “Corrupt Bargain.” After Jackson was done with war he decided he wanted to teach, but didn’t like it at all and that's when he decided he wanted to be a lawyer. He started when he was 17 in North Carolina. On June 1796, Tennessee was separated from North Carolina and became the 16th state. Soon after Jackson became the state's first congressman. A year after he was elected U.S. Senator but was only there for 1 year then he resigned. After he resigned he returned home and served for six years as a judge on the Tennessee Supreme court (Andrew