This biography introduces readers to Andrew Jackson including his military service, early political career, and key events from Jackson's administration including the Indian Removal Act and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
12 , 1803 , Thomas Jefferson Papers , Library of Congress , on line at American Memory web site ... also Peter J. Kastor , The Nation's Crucible : The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America ( New Haven : Yale Univ .
This powerful TIME special edition, Andrew Jackson: An American Populist, examines the seventh president of the United States, his willful and combative style and his enduring legacy, and why it is so resonant today.
Keane was confident that Pakenham would be irresistible in the attack and invincible in finishing it, so the British waited. The man, the men, and the guns arrived on Christmas Day. Pakenham doubtless did not like what he saw when he ...
Andrew Jackson, a military hero, lost the presidency in 1824 to a wealthy aristocrat.
Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, a dark-haired, vivacious beauty, was the daughter of a popular Irish-immigrant innkeeper in Washington, well known to congressmen and other government officials. Her husband, John Timberlake, ...
Although Bray Hammond , Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War ( Princeton , 1957 ) , was written by a former member of the Federal Reserve Board who unquestionably knows a great deal about banking , I find ...
A psychologist might suggest that the general was thinking of a way to cheer his distraught wife by placing an infant in her care, or perhaps he sought a playmate for Andrew. No doubt, Old Hickory felt compassion for a boy who found ...
In 1829 Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States, the first who did not come from a wealthy, east coast family.
The concluding volume of this three-volume biography covers Jackson's triumphant reelection, the war against the Bank of the United States, removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi, and the annexation...
Examines Andrew Jackson's early years as an Indian fighter in Tennessee and South Carolina, his victory in the 1814 Creek War, and his presidential years, the Indian Removal Act, and the Trail of Tears.