Andrew Jackson Part 1

Andrew Jackson The 7^th president of the U.S. Part 1

Andrew and His Family

When I read Presidents of the U.S.A. Andrew Jackson Our Seventh President I learned that Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. I also learned that he was the first president whose parents were poor immigrants, they settle from Ireland. He was also the first president to be elected from a boundary state. He protected rights of poor American citizens, misdeed rights of people he considered unequal, and abused Native American rights. President Andrew Jackson’s father name was Andrew Jackson also but I don’t know if the president’s full name was Andrew Jackson Jr. or the third. Also his mother’s name was Elizabeth but her nickname was “Betty.” The Jackson family settled on the border of North and South Carolina called the Waxhaws.

Shocking Moments!

A very shocking thing I read was that adults couldn’t read in Andrew’s hometown but he started reading at 5 years old. One of the things he read was the Declaration of Independence, and he read it to people in his town. Another shocking thing is that Andrew’s father died a few days before Andrew Jackson, the president, was born.

The American Revolutionary War & the Waxhaws Massacre

Andrew Jackson has two brothers, Hugh and Robert Jackson. Hugh Jackson joined the American army so he could be in the American Revolutionary War, Hugh died in 1779. Charles Cornwallis a British General, sent soldiers to South Carolina and members of the militias armies gathered by the Waxhaws. And about 100 of the patriots and most of the Jackson family’s friends died including their neighbors. This was called the Waxhaws Massacre.

The War Continues and Diseases Appear

Andrew and Robert Jackson joined the army after the Waxhaws Massacre. Andrew was 13 and Robert was 16 at the time those events happened. No one knows what Andrew did in the army; he might have been a messenger or carried water to soldiers. Robert was trained to fight in the military and fought in battle. In April of the year 1781, Andrew and Robert Jackson were captured by a British police for refusing to polish his boots. The police cut them with his sword and arrested them. They had smallpox from unsanitary conditions while they were in jail. Betty, their mother, took them back home and Robert died from smallpox two days later. Few weeks later Betty died with a sickness called cholera and Andrew lost his whole family at age 14 except for a few other relatives.

Andrew’s New Family

He lived with his relatives a while after his mom died but he did not get along with them. In December 1784, he was 17 and decided to move away from his relatives, he moved to Salisbury, North Carolina. Andrew Jackson became a lawyer two years later. Andrew Jackson wanted to see the west part of America so he made his own state called Tennessee. He settled in a town called Nashville, Tennessee and started his own law office there. He settled in a boarding house that  already had pilgrims living there and he married a girl that lived there named Rachel Donelson Robards in 1791. They never had any blood related children of their own but they did adopt a son in 1809. Anyone who said anything about Andrew or his wife, would be challenged by Andrew  to a gunfight and Andrew killed them but would get injured.

Being an General

 In April of 1814, Andrew Jackson became the U.S. army general. A month later, he becomes the commander of soldiers    in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. When British soldiers attacked Alabama and Florida Andrew had leaded the army to defeat them in battle. Also Jackson and the army went to New Orleans, and then won the “Battle of New Orleans.”

First Time Running For President

The Revolutionary War ended on December 24, 1814 and people were proud of his victory and they hoped he would run for president one day. In 1823, Andrew was running for president. In 1824 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson were running for president. John Quincy Adam won the election.

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