Andrew Jackson2
My name is Andrew Jackson, and I was the 7th president of the United States. People tell me that I have a lot to be proud of, because I wasn't just a president, I worked as a prosecuting attorney, and I fought in the war. I've heard people say that I was the best-loved and most-hated president the young nation had ever known. I named a era after myself, and always lived according to the rugged, straightforward code of the American frontier. In 1802, I was elected major general of the military force. The turning point in my life was definitely my service in the War of 1812. One of my first victories was over the Creek Indians. Inspired by the British attacks on the Americans, the Creeks raided frontier settlements in Georgia and Alabama. My Tennessee military and I crushed the Creeks at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, on March 27, 1814. After winning that battle, I was then ordered to defend New Orleans. I built up my small regular army, and recruited frontier riflemen from Tennessee and Kentucky, and also gathered a force of volunteers. On January 8, 1815 the British troops charged. It was a massacre; the British withdrew after suffering 2,237 deaths, while we only lost 71.
Before my second term in office began, nullification became an issue. My belief in the people and my loyalty to my supporters led me to extend what is called the "spoils system. Only days earlier, December 24,1814, a peace treaty had been signed. I had preserved the Union, but nullification remained a great question. On March 4, 1829, I was inaugurated the seventh president of the Unites States. Since I was named "Spokesman of the West" I distrusted the powerful financiers of the East. Communication was so slow, that the news just didn't reach me in time. Congress had passed a tariff that South Carolina thought was against its own interests. This meant that the House of Representatives would choose the president. During my presidency, there was a large amount of slaveholding Southerners in Texas. Because of this issue I was easily re-elected for presidency in 1832. ver fighting the battle was a tragic mistake. One candidate gave his votes to John Quincy Adams who became the sixth president of the United States.
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