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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency , he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress .
Jackson looked at the Indian question in terms of military and legal policy, not as a problem due to their race. [49] In 1813, Jackson adopted and treated as his own son a three-year-old Indian orphan—seeing in him a fellow orphan that was "so much like myself I feel an unusual sympathy for him". [50]
The Era of Good Feelings started in 1815 at the end of the War of 1812. [2] Exultation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, the North and South, and the East Coast cities and settlers on the American frontier.
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Dr. Daniel Feller, professor of history and editor/director, The Papers of Andrew Jackson, reads a passage in 2016 from the 13th volume, a thick book covering the year of 1831.
The history of Andrew Jackson. During the War of 1812, Jackson became a hero for helping to defeat the British Army in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. But he was also a slave owner, owning a ...
Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson, served as the president's personal secretary, and wife, Emily, acted as the White House hostess. [26] Jackson's inaugural cabinet suffered from bitter partisanship and gossip, especially between Eaton, Vice President John C. Calhoun, and Van Buren. By mid-1831, all except Barry (and Calhoun) had ...
[181] The documents timeline in The Papers of Andrew Jackson includes three mentions of a case known as Andrew Jackson and John Hutchings v. Benjamin Rawlings. The suit seems to have been initiated in approximately September 1805, a decision was rendered in September 1808, and an appeal decision was handed down in March 1813.