Does anyone know anything about Andrew Jackson??

Question

Ok i seriously need help with this assignment from my history teacher.
He said to write a one paragraph diary entry from Andrew Jackson on the day of his inauguration and list his thoughts and feelings. How am i supposed to do that?? Can anyone like help me do this plzzz??

Answer 1

Umm he was a Democrat, disliked banks, was an expantionist, and made tribes of Native Americans move out west. He was seen as a "people's president" because he wasn't like an aristocrat. Also, he favored the spoils system, as well as a strict Constitutional policy.

Go to wikipedia and look up Jacksonian Democracy.

Answer 2

i think one of his diary entries was "i SOOOO glad i'm now Pres of the US, cuz i can later get my face on the $20 bill."

no seriously, he's got some other more significant stuff for US history & how he played some significant points in US government. U might wanna start with Wikipedia.com & there will be other areas U can expand on.

good luck. yes, U can use my above quote as yours. your teacher might get a laugh out of it. hopefully, he gets enough of a laugh that he gives U an "A"

Answer 3

Your teacher sucks. That is the crappiest assignment I've ever heard of. How the heck are yous supposed to now what someone thought or how they felt? Anyway, check out this link for a ton of great info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

Answer 4

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was also a merchant, land speculator, lawyer, slave trader,[1] military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a co-founder of the modern Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. He was a polarizing figure who dominated the American politics in the 1820s and 1830s.

Nicknamed "Old Hickory" because he was renowned for his toughness, Jackson was the first President primarily associated with the American frontier (although born in South Carolina, he spent most of his life in Tennessee).


Early life and career
Jackson was born in a backwoods settlement to Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants Andrew and Elizabeth Jackson in Lancaster County, South Carolina, on March 15, 1767. He was the youngest of three brothers and was born just weeks after his father's death. Both North Carolina and South Carolina have claimed Jackson as a "native son," because the community straddled the state line. Jackson himself always stated that he was born in a cabin on the South Carolina side. He received a sporadic education. At age thirteen, during the American Revolutionary War, he joined a local regiment as a courier.


Jackson refusing to clean a British officer's boots (1876 lithography)Andrew and his brother Robert Jackson were taken as prisoners, and they nearly starved to death. When Andrew refused to clean the boots of a British officer, the irate redcoat slashed at him, giving him scars on his left hand and head, as well as an intense hatred for the British. Both boys contracted smallpox while imprisoned, and Robert died days after his mother secured their release. Jackson's entire immediate family died from war-time hardships that Jackson also blamed upon the British. Jackson was the last U.S. President to have been a veteran of the American Revolution, and the only President to have been a prisoner of war.

Jackson came to Tennessee by 1787. Though he could barely read law, he found he knew enough to become a young lawyer on the frontier. Since he was not from a distinguished family, he had to make his career by his own merits; and soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. Most of the actions grew out of disputed land-claims, or from assaults and battery. He was elected as Tennessee's first Congressman, upon its statehood in the late 1790s, and quickly became a U.S. Senator in 1797 but resigned within a year. In 1798, he was appointed judge on the Tennessee Supreme Court

Answer 5

You might try to google The Hermitage which is the name of his home. I live right down the street from it. You might find some useful info there.

Answer 6

Look him up on the net, i know he was a president, and he's on the $20 dollar bill.

Answer 7

He's our 7th US president, first democrate, and he's on the $20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_jackson

Answer 8

i dont know, why dont you just hand him a twenty and see if he gives you an A.