Jackson called Adams an elitist who wanted to increase government in order to benefit the so-called “aristocracy,” Americans of enormous wealth. In the fall of 1828, Jackson won the vote, revealing ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... He was re-elected in 1832. When he was 24, Jackson married Rachel Donelson, a young divorcée. The marriage was not valid; Rachel Donelson ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

A contemplative space," he said. Jackson was one of a ... people — enslaved and free — who built the young nation. Richard Blackett, Andrew Jackson professor of history emeritus at Vanderbilt ...

Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized as entrenched establishment interests. He frustrated ...