Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845

7th President of the United States: 1829 - 1837

A brief biography

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1. Introduction: An Atrocious Saint In A Bewildering Era 
2. A Life of Andrew Jackson
3. Tennessee Statehood; Congressman Jackson (1796-1798)
4. Jackson as Judge and General; More East-West Feuding (1798-1804)
5. Beginnings of Jackson's Career as General (1805-1813)
6. The Creek War 1813-1814
7. A National Hero - The Battle of New Orleans, Winter 1814-15
8. Eviction of Indians and Taking of Florida
9. Retirement 1821-1822
10. Road to the Presidency - Part 1 (1822-24)
11. Road to the Presidency - Part II, The Jackson Coalition 1825-1828
12. The 1828 Presidential Election
13. The People's Inaugural: January - March 1829
14. Turmoil in the Jackson Cabinet
15. Jackson and Congress
16. Background of the "Bank Wars"
17. Henry Clay and the "Bank Wars"
18. The 1832 Election
19. Tariffs and Nullification - Again
20. The End of the Bank War
21. Jacksonian Foreign Relations; Whig Obstructionism in the French Crisis
22. Conclusions

• The Jackson Era
• Jackson's duel with Charles Dickinson
• Sources