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Andrew Jackson was born into poverty. He was born in 1767 and died in 1845. By 1812 he had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician. when war broke out between the United States and Britain by 1812. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become America’s most influential–and polarizing–political figure during the 1820s and 1830s. After being so close to winning against John Quincy Adams in the contentious 1824 presidential election, Jackson returned four years later to win redemption, and Adams became the nation’s seventh president (1829-1837). As America’s political party system developed, Jackson became the leader of the new Democratic Party. In 1830 Jackson started the removal of Indians.
Military Career
Andrew Jackson, who served as a major general in the War of 1812 and commanded U.S. forces in a five-month campaign against the Creek Indians which were allies of the British. Once the campaign ended in an American victory in the Battle of Tohopeka (or Horseshoe Bend) in Alabama in the mid-1814. Then Jackson leads American forces to victory over the British in the Battle of New Orleans on January 1815. The victory which occurred after the War of 1812 officially ended but before news of the Treaty of Ghent had reached Washington, but Jackson was already stated the national war hero. In 1817 Jackson was acting as commander of the army’s southern district, and ordered an invasion of Florida. After his forces captured Spanish posts at St. Mark’s and Pensacola, he claimed that the surrounding land was for the United States. The Spanish government violently protested, and Jackson’s actions formed a heated debate in Washington.
Bank Issue
A major battle between the two emerging political parties involved the Bank of the United States. Andrew Jackson and his supporters opposed the bank, seeing it as a privileged institution and the enemy of the common people. But Clay and Webster led the argument in Congress for its recharter since it supposed to expire in 1832. In July, Jackson vetoed the recharter, charging that the bank constituted the “prostration of our Government to the advancement of the few at the expense of the many.” Despite the controversial veto, Jackson won reelection easily over Clay with more than 56 percent of the popular vote and five times more electoral votes.