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====Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Waxhaws area near the border between North and South Carolina on March 15, 1767. Jackson's parents lived in North Carolina but historians debate on which side of the state line the birth took place. Jackson was the third child and third son of Scots-Irish parents. His father, also named Andrew, died as the result of a logging accident just a few weeks before the future president was born. Jackson's mother, Elizabeth ("Betty") Hutchison Jackson, was by all accounts a strong, independent woman. After her husband's death she raised her three sons at the South Carolina home of one of her sisters.====


 * Career:** Lawyer, Soldier
 * First Lady:** Widower. His wife, Rachel Donelson Robards, died in 1828.

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaw settlement, a community of Scotch-Irish immigrants along the border between North and South Carolina. Though his birthplace is in dispute, he considered himself a South Carolina native. His father died before his birth and Andrew's mother and her three small boys moved in with her Crawford relatives. Jackson attended local schools, receiving an elementary education and perhaps a smattering of higher learning.

Soldier, Prisoner and Orphan

The Revolutionary War ended Jackson's childhood and wiped out his remaining immediate family. Fighting in the Carolina backcountry was especially savage, a brutish conflict of ambushes, massacres, and sharp skirmishes. Jackson's oldest brother Hugh enlisted in a patriot regiment and died at Stono Ferry, apparently from heatstroke. Too young for formal soldiering, Andrew and his brother Robert fought with American irregulars. In 1781, they were captured and contracted smallpox, of which Robert died shortly after their release. While trying to retrieve some nephews from a British prison ship, Andrew's mother also fell ill and died.

An orphan and a hardened veteran at the age of fifteen, Jackson drifted, taught school a little, and then read law in North Carolina. After admission to the bar in 1787, he accepted an offer to serve as public prosecutor in the new Mero District of North Carolina, west of the mountains, with its seat at Nashville on the Cumberland River. Arriving in 1788, Jackson thrived in the new frontier town. He built a legal practice, entered into trading ventures, and began to acquire land and slaves

it was a time after the war of 1812 when everyone and everything was a peace.
 * Era of Good Feelings**

In 1823 james monroe, pretty much worried Europeians not to get involed with centeral and south america.
 * Monroe Doctrine**

Agreement put forward by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state.
 * Missouri Compromise **

It is a system that connects towns by roads and canals, to trade and learn. It was used for helping other towns with a problem.
 * American System** (Cumberland Road, Erie Canal)


 * Election of 1824

jackson got most popular votes but did not win office. henry clay is the reason adams won. people thought that adams was friends with clay and that is why he won.**

this ment that more americans could vote. In the 1820s some partys begain having nominating conventions which allowed more people to put their vote/ imput in.
 * Changes in Voting Rights**

when jackson was elected his supporters called themselves the democratic party
 * Election of 1828**

when jackson was elected people that voted for him started to call themselfs the democratic party
 * Rise of the Democratic Party**