Before he became the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson was a hot shot lawyer in Tennessee, which is where he built his mansion, The Hermitage, which was originally dubbed ‘Rural Retreat’ and is now a popular tourist attraction in Nashville. The Hermitage is Nashville’s oldest museum. Since opening as a museum to ...
In 1828 Congress passed a new tariff that doubled the rates for certain exports up to 45%, beginning what is known in American history as the Nullification Crisis. This tariff, called the Tariff of Abominations, infuriated southerners in America, who accused Congress of promoting the interests of the industrial North and the expense of southern ...
Candidates: Presidential: Andrew Jackson (Tennessee); John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts); William Crawford (Georgia); Henry Clay (Kentucky) Vice-Presidential: John Calhoun (South Carolina); Nathan Sanford (New York); Nathaniel Macon (North Carolina); Andrew Jackson (Tennessee); Martin Van Buren (New York); Henry Clay (Kentucky) Election Results Presidential: Andrew Jackson: 99 electoral votes, 151,000 popular votes John Quincy Adams: 84 electoral ...
COMMENTARY | The seventh President of the United States was known as “Old Hickory” for good reasons. Andrew Jackson was a fighter from the day he was born. His father had been killed in an accident before reaching 30 and it was on the way home from his burial, that his mother gave birth to ...
The rise of populist discontent following the 1824 presidential election, in which John Quincy Adams won the presidency in a congressional “corrupt bargain,” centered around the new feeling of democratic disenfranchisement in the western and southern states. The embodiment of these feelings came in the “outsider” candidacy and presidency of General Andrew Jackson, who wanted ...
Candidates: Democratic Party: Andrew Jackson (Tennessee) and John Calhoun (South Carolina) National Republican Party: John Quincy Adams (Massachusetts) and Richard Rush (Pennsylvania) Election Results: Jackson and Calhoun: 642,000 popular votes; 178 electoral votes. Adams and Rush: 500,000 popular votes, 83 electoral votes. Summary: The “corrupt bargain” of the 1824 presidential election, which swung the vote ...
Bringing a close to the “Era of Good Feelings,” the presidential election of 1824 brought to scholarly attention some potential troubles which could arise in the early years of the newly formed country. This time of prosperity and harmony ceased to exist when sectional conflict and personal disagreements came to a head in one of ...
The Tennessee State Museum is one of the largest museums in the South that focuses on the history of the South, which includes the American Indians that once made the South their home all the way up through the Civil War and beyond. The focus of the Tennessee State Museum is of course on the ...
The Second Bank of the United States and the two term presidency of Andrew Jackson present one of the first major battles between populist interests and the elites within American society. The Second Bank was chartered by the federal government in 1816 to act as the only financial institution to function in all of the ...
James Polk was seemly unambitious for a man who served in so many public offices. At the onset of the War of 1812, Polk was recovering from an operation for bladder stones. He endured the operation awake with the aid of a few bolstering shots of brandy. He became a lawyer whose first case was ...