Andrew Jackson

Andrew capital of Mississippi; a born leader and self-taught military brainpower; became the hero of New siege of Orleans when he led a band of Tennessee frontiersman southward into Mississippi territory. They fought Indians anywhere they could induce them. Then capital of Mississippi invaded Spanish territory in westerly Florida to head off any British attempt to off the port of Pensacola. Turning westward, they helped defend New Orleans and store a force of about fifty-four hundred frontiersman, sailors, constant troops and pirates. Free blacks joined with the promise of money and lands in the U.S. Americans lay behind walls of cotton bales waiting invading redcoats. The British commander assembleed a frontal attack and watched his soldiers go down in rows before he himself was killed. This was the only really decisive land victory of the entire war for the Americans.

        capital of Mississippi became an overnight hero in the battle of New Orleans and kept himself in the publics eye by his exploits in Florida. He campaigned for the presidency, in 1824, and won at the popular polls yet lost the election. He received the largest anatomy of popular votes and the largest number in the Electoral College. Since he did not have the electoral majority the election went into the House of Representatives. The vote was between Jackson and John Quincy Adams. Adams ended up winning the Presidency by a majority of the states represented in the House.

        In 1828, Jackson ran again for the Presidency. Between 1826 and 1828 both Adams and Jackson called themselves Republicans. Adams called himself a subject field Republican and Jackson called himself a Democratic Republican. Jackson appealed to the general people with his ideas about government, states rights and as little federal consumption as possible. After Jacksons win, his party was called the Democratic Party.

        Andrew Jackson notion of himself as a...

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