Andrew Jackson

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Andrew Jackson
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Causes

• He was a war hero (War of 1812)
• Nicknamed Old Hickory
• In prison by British (when he was 13)
• People were tired of elite Democratic-Republican
  s and Federalists
• Tennessee frontiersmen
• Clay and Adams, dirty deal in 1824

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Results

• Founding of Democratic Party
• New spirit of equality one man one vote
• Trail of Tears (Indian Removal Act 1830)
• Cherokees removed from Georgia
• Refusal to obey Justice Marshall
• Spoils system giving govt. jobs to supporters
• Jacksonian Democracy