Andrew Jackson Part II

Andrew Jackson Part II

By Laura VanGemert

​Andrew Jackson: Road to the White House

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After being the governor of Florida, Andrew hung around at home on his plantation in Tennessee called the Hermitage where he owned about 4 dozen slaves, from about 1821-1824. People kept trying to get him to run for President. They were like, “Dude! You’ve got to do this! The way you rolled through Florida?! That was off the hook!”

But Rachel didn’t want Andrew to run for President, so he said he wouldn’t run, but “if elected, I would do my duty and serve”. He was elected a state senator again.

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Who didn't want Andrew Jackson to serve as President and why do you think they felt this way?

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How many slaves did Andrew Jackson own?

 He did not like being senator, though, he thought it was tedious and that it was mostly boring speeches and socializing. He also did not fit in in Washington DC at all.  He was a huge jerk; one congressman described him as  “uncouth looking”

Thomas Jefferson thought Andrew had savage instincts and once observed him so overcome with anger that he was left speechless.​

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Why didn't Andrew Jackson like being a Senator?

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Who thoughts Andrew Jackson had "savage instincts"?

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His fiery temper permanently marked  him with the elites of DC so, they see him as an uncontrollable

uncouth force. They’re not worried about him, they’re just like, “get out of here”. They think he’s an idiot. 

He was blunt with his opinions and also took quick resentment to anyone who disagreed with his opinions. A few months later he went back to Nashville and his supporters still wanted him to be President;  in 1824 Andrew Jackson got 154,000 votes John Quincy Ansel Adams got 109,000 votes.​

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What can you infer "uncouth" means?

​Election Results

Representative Henry Clay and secretary of the Treasury William H Crawford got forty-seven thousand.The electors met in DC in December for two weeks to figure out who the President would be.When the

When the electoral vote came in it was Andrew Jackson 99 Adams 84 Crawford 47 clay 37.

But the Constitution said if no candidate had a majority of votes the house would choose the president from the top three winner, so Clay is fourth so he's out and now it's between Crawford, Adams and Jackson. Remember: all these guys don’t like him.​

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Constitution said if no candidate had a majority of votes ______ would choose the president from the top three winner