1. Plantation Owner Jackson lived in the Hermitage, a 1,050 acres plantation. The primary crop was cotton grown by enslaved workers. At one time Jackson.

1. Plantation Owner

• Jackson lived in the Hermitage, a 1,050 acres plantation. The primary crop was cotton grown by enslaved workers. At one time Jackson owned as many as 150 and may have owned as many as 300 in his lifetime. This rated him among the planter elite.

2. Indian Fighter

• Red Stick Indians were attacking American settlers on the frontier of Georgia and Alabama

• Over 400 settlers were killed in the Fort Mims Massacre, this resulted in the Creek War

• Jackson won the war at the Battle of Horseshoe Creek when his army killed over 800 Indians.

• The Treaty that followed secured over 20 millions acres of land for American settlers

3. Indian Adoption

• "In 1813, Jackson sent home an Indian child found on battlefield with his dead mother. He was educated with Andrew Junior and Jackson had aspirations of sending him to West Point. Political circumstances made that impossible, and Lyncoya went to train as a saddle maker in Nashville. He died of tuberculosis in 1828."

4. Battle of New Orleans

5. Invasion of Florida

• President Monroe ordered Jackson to defend settlers in southern Georgia and Alabama.

• Jackson invaded Florida and attacked the Seminal villages while the warriors were away.

• He captured Pensacola from the Spanish and hanged two British subjects for helping Indians attack American settlers

• The Seminal Wars resulted in American acquisition of Florida from Spain.

6. Murderer (?)• Dickinson wrote to Jackson calling him a "coward and an

equivicator". The affair continued, with more insults and misunderstandings, until Dickinson published a statement in the Nashville Review in May 1806, calling Jackson a "worthless scoundrel, ... a poltroon and a coward".

• This quarrel was the result of a gambling disagreement over horse racing.

• Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel very much according to the customs of the time in the south.

• Dickinson fired the first shot, which broke two of Jackson's ribs and lodged two inches from his heart. Dickinson then had to stand at the mark as Jackson, clutching his chest, aimed slowly and shot him fatally.

7. “Spoils System”

• When President Jackson replaced government workers with supporters who helped get Jackson elected

• In practice, this meant replacing federal employees with friends or party loyalists. By the end of his term, Jackson dismissed nearly 20% of the Federal employees at the start of it, replacing them with political appointees from his party

8. Jacksonian Democracy

• Under Jackson property requirements and taxes were removed as requirements to vote – this gave the common man say over government.

• In doing this Jackson hoped to wrestle government way from a “ruling elite” and back into the hands of the people.