Old Hickory
Andrew Jackson who was born on March 15, 1767 and died on June 8, 1845 was the seventh President of the United States Of America. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the British at the Battle of New Orleans .He was a polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing. Jackson who was an essential frontier tycoon and an opportunist for whom the ideals ...