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Andrew Jackson Outline

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Kayla Mcgaughey November 15, 2017 U.S. History Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and was known for his military experience and his rocky presidency. He campaigned on being a “Common Man” and stood for all the things that southern elitist stood for, the good and the bad. However, as with all American Presidents, there was more to his life than just politics. Jackson was born to a poor family in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas on the 15th of March in 1767. He had two older brothers, Hugh and Robert, that were born in Northern Ireland before his parents emigrated to America. His father, Andrew Jackson, who he was named for, died before he was born in a farming accident. This left his mother behind to provide for the three boys off the wages of a housekeeper. The Revolutionary War broke out when Jackson was just a teenager. Him, his brothers, and his mother all participated in the war. Jackson and his brothers fought, and his mother was a nurse taking care of wounded soldiers. Huge died from heat exhaustion in battle when he was 16 years of age. Robert probably died from exposure to the elements and a compromised immune system while he was on his way home from a prisoner-of-war camp. And Andrew Jackson’s mother, Elizabeth, died of Cholera shortly after he was released from a prisoner-of-war camp when he was 14 years old. He always held a grudge against the british and blamed them for the loss of his remaining family members.

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