Foreign Affairs

Jackson was forceful with foreign affairs as he was with

domestic business
• The U.S. was more free and independent through his
presidency
• First president to negotiate commercial treaties with
Asian countries ( Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, etc)
• Ended British restrictions on the U.S. trade to recover
money that foreign countries had owed to the U.S.

Domestic Affairs

• Created a rotation in
office
• Jackson created the
spoils system
• Founded the
Democrat party
• Andrew Jackson
signed the Indian
Removal Act to
remove Indians to the
west

• • Demanded
a return to the
“hard money” of
silver and gold
 Personal Life

• Andrew Jackson was

born on March 15, 1767
• His birth was not truly
known to be solely in
North or South
California
• Jackson’s family resided
in Waxhaws, a frontier
region that bordered the
Carolinas
• He won a duel against
Charles Dickinson, the only man he ever killed through a
duel
• Jackson suffered from depression, smallpox, malaria, and
dysentery
• Jackson loved horse racing
• Andrew Jackson’s face is on the twenty dollar bill
• Andrew Jackson died on June 8, 1845 in Tennessee

Presidency

• Andrew Jackson became President on March, 4th 1829

• He ran against Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and
William Crawford
• He had huge support from the Democratic party, as
Jackson was its first candidate
• Jackson totaled 155,800 votes compared to Adam’s
104,300 votes
• “Corrupt bargain” was struck the first time he did not
obtain presidency
• Jackson promised to cut down on spending and to pay off
the national debt
- In only 1 year the national debt was reduced
tremendously
• Introduced with more depth the spoils system
• Jackson supported the Indian Removal Act
• First president to have a kitchen cabinet, which was a
group of advisers who were not members of the real
cabinet
 The First Lady
• Rachel Donelson was the wife of president Andrew
Jackson
• She married Jackson in August 1791 but later remarried
in 1794 because her first
divorce was not official until
1793
• Rachel took care of their
children, none of them were the
biological children of Andrew
Jackson
• Influenced Andrew Jackson to
resign from Governor as she
was “..anxious to return home”
• She influenced Andrew
Jackson to not immediately
refuse/insult what was not to his liking
• Rachel suffered a fatal heart attack on December 17,
1828 and as they believed she were recovering she
passed away on December 22, 1828
• Rachel Donelson Jackson’s death caught regional and
national attention

Andrew Jackson
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