Andrew Jackson (15 mars 1767 - 8 juin 1845) a été le septième président des États-Unis (1829-1837). Il était un homme politique et général de l'armée qui a vaincu les Indiens Creek à la bataille de Horseshoe Bend (1814), et les Britanniques à la bataille de la Nouvelle Orléans
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Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815). A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he destroyed the national bank and relocated most Indian tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River. His enthusiastic followers created the modern Democratic Party. The 1830-1850 period later became known as the era of Jacksonian democracy. He supported a small and limited federal government. He strengthened the power of the presidency, which he saw as spokesman for the entire population. Jackson was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because of his toughness and aggressive personality; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents. On January 30, 1835, what is believed to be the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States, Richard Lawrence aimed a pistols at Jackson and shot, but, both misfired. On the last day of his presidency, Jackson admitted that he had but two regrets, that he "had been unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun." He died at The Hermitage in 1845, at the age of 78, of chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure. His portrait appears on the United States twenty-dollar bill. He has appeared on $5, $10, $50, and $10, 000 bills in the past, as well as a Confederate $1, 000 bill.
