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Who Was Andrew Jackson?

A lawyer and a landowner, Andrew Jackson became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in Known as the "people's president," Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States, founded the Democratic Party, supported individual liberty and instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans.

He died on June 8,

Early Life

Jackson was born on March 15, , to Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Scots-Irish colonists who emigrated from Ireland in Though Jackson’s birthplace is presumed to have been at one of his uncles' houses in the remote Waxhaws region that straddles North Carolina and South Carolina, the exact location is unknown since the precise border had yet to be surveyed.

Jackson’s birth came just three weeks after the sudden death of his father at the age of

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