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Jackson's birth
Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaws region between North Carolina and South Carolina. -
Battle of horseshoe bend
Andrew Jackson and his forces won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. Horseshoe Bend was the major battle of the Creek War, in which Jackson sought to "clear" the Mississippi Territory for American settlement. -
Battle of New Orleans
January 8, 1815, the two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements. In the bloody Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson the victory vaulted Jackson to national stardom. -
Election of 1824
John Quincy Adams was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1828
The election results were a clear victory for Jackson, but were highly sectional in nature. The South, West, and the states of Pennsylvania and New York went for Jackson; New England voted for Adams. -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Worcester v. Georgia
In Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831), the court held that it did not have jurisdiction to strike down Georgia's laws. In dicta that became particularly important in American Indian law, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the Cherokees constituted a "domestic, dependent nation" that existed under the United States. -
Nullification Crsis
The Tariff of 1832, despite pleas from Southern representatives, failed to moderate the protective barriers erected in earlier legislation. The South Carolina passed an ordinance of nullification on November 24, 1832, and threatened to secede if the federal government attempted to collect those tariff duties to prevent the secede they lowered the tariff and said they didn't have enough power to secede. -
Bank War
The Bank War was the name for the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States.
