Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace. The ...
Jackson was born in the then remote Waxhaws region of the Carolinas, on March 15, 1767. His parents were Scots-Irish immigrants, and his father died just three weeks shy of Jackson’s birth. One of ...
On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to assassinate then-President Andrew Jackson. That cold and dreary Friday ...
Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...
The 1828 presidential campaign was brutal for Jackson, as supporters of Adams accused him of being a tyrant who would use his position to achieve Napoleonic ambitions. Though Jackson had a ...
Andrew Jackson won another girls’ basketball state championship in dominant fashion Saturday. The high school in Lancaster County routed Eau Claire, 89-36, in the South Carolina Class 2A title ...