[USA] - 7th President of the USA Andrew Jackson - Part 1

Andrew Jackson	Birth: 15 March 1767
	Died: 8 June 1845
	Party: Democrat
	Presidency: 1829 ~ 1837
	Vice President: John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren
	Nickname: Old Man Hickory

 

● Tom Thumb  

Peter Cooper invented the first steam powered train locomotive.

 

Peter Cooper

 

Her was an inventor with great wealth and he was the first person to ever present the steam powered train in America on the Baltimore and Ohio line which was the first ever built steam powered rail road in America.

Peter Cooper named his first locomotive ‘Tom Thumb’ because it was only 20 feet long (About 6 meters long)

 

 

● Indian Removal Act(Native American Removal Act) 

Andrew Jackson was one of the most brutal people in terms of treating native Americans.

Per the Indian Removal Act (Native American Removal Act) in 1830, Andrew Jackson forced native American tribes to relocate their home ground further west while taking over their original territories.

 

 

Andrew Jackson would order federal troops to force tribes such as the Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and the Cherokee.

Although, the Cherokee tribe attempted to seek justice by the Supreme Court(Worcester v. Georgia), the Supreme court declared that the fate of the Native Americans relied on the federal government.

 

 

● The Black Hawk War

‘Black Hawk’ was the leader of the Sauk (Sac) and Fox tribe. Against the Native American removal act, Black Hawk fought against the immigrant settlements.

 

Black Hawk

 

However, the native Americans face a brutal fate as they were massacred at the Bad Axe River regardless of women, children or warrior.

Among the men that participated in the Black Hawk War were Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln who would both become president of the United States of America.

 

 

● Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Nat Turner started a slave revolution in the Southampton County of Virginia. He killed his owners in sleep and attempts to arm his men with the County’s armory.

However, Nat Turner’s forces were countered by the militia that outnumbered them. Nat turner evaded for almost two months but he was pursuit and hanged to death.

Many slave states in the South legislated the prohibition of education for slaves and travel as the Nat Turner Rebellion spooked the Southern states.

 

 

● The Liberator

In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of ‘The Liberator’. William Garrison was one of the most active spokesmen of a complete ban on slavery throughout the whole United States.

The Liberator would later inspire the Abolitionist Movement that attempted to put a complete ban on slavery. The Liberator would also raise voice on women rights.

 

 

● Remember the Alamo

The massacre at the Alamo was part of the Texan Independence. Texas was still a median territory between Mexico and the United States of America.

People like Stephen F. Austin (which became the name for Texas’s major city) were one of the major founders of developing Texas.

However, Antonio López de Santa Anna becomes president of Mexico and he starts a civil war as he attempted to centralize governmental power while oppressing regionalism.

 

 

(Santana Anna also bans slavery which the Texans revolted to) Santa Anna’s Mexican forces siege the Alamo fortress for 13 days which killed 183 defenders of the Alamo fortress including the famous pioneer Davy Crockett.

The writing on the Alamo fortress walls “I shall never surrender or retreat. Victory or Death’ written by William B. Travis inspired men for the Texan Independence as they would cry out ‘Remember the Alamo’

 

Stephen F. Austin  

 

● Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett (although there would be controversies over his roles in anti-native American campaigns) was a former congressman and an active frontiersman.

He became a heroic figure with his symbolic coonskin cap.

After his death at the Alamo fortress, he became the motif for many media and culture.

 

 

● Texan Independence

As Antonio López de Santa Anna became the president of Mexico and started a civil war trying to centralize the government power. He also banned slavery.

The people of Texas rebelled to Santa Anna’s policy which would start the Texan Independence. Previously, Texas was a median ground between the United States and Mexico.

 

battle of San Jacinto

 

Admission of Texas as a state could have caused dispute between Mexico and addition of a slavery state didn’t satisfy Andrew Jackson and the previous presidents.

However, incidents such as the siege and massacre of the Alamo uplifted the Texan Independence.

Under the command of Sam Houston, the Texas army won the battle of San Jacinto against Santa Anna’s army crying ‘Remember the Alamo’.

On the 4th of July 1836, congress acknowledges the 'Republic of Texas' and Texas would start its step to become a part of the United States.(Not until 1845, Texas becomes a part of the US) Sam Houston’s name is recognized as the state’s capital Houston.