Andrew Jackson

• First president born in the West

• The British held his brother and him prisoner during the War of Independence

• Became a lawyer, and later entered politics

• Elected as a Representative and later a Senator from Tennessee

• His home was called The Hermitage

Jackson’s Military Career Battle of New Orleans

• Fought with a hodgepodge of soldiers including loafers & pirates

• Pirate Jean Lafitte supplied gunpowder and flints for the muskets

Campaign Against the Seminoles

• President Monroe ordered Jackson to Florida because of many Seminole attacks

• Jackson disobeyed Monroe by following the Seminoles over the Florida border

• Jackson was made military governor of the Florida Territory

Jean LafitteSeminole Chief

The Spoils System

• Many of Jackson’s friends from Tennessee followed him to Washington to beg for jobs

• Jackson fired government employees and gave his friends their jobs

• The Spoils System is a bad way to operate government

The Nullification Controversy • Tariff on imported

goods helped Northern factories

• Hurt Southern farms by raising prices on goods

• Tariff became national law, but South Carolina passed state law overriding it

• SC threatened secession (breaking away from the United States)

SouthCarolina

TARIFF