HIST 2055 Chapter : Jacksonian Era
Document Summary
Video notes: andrew never met his father, at beginning of war in 1775, carolinas became very dangerous, andrew jackson was a young teen when he became a messenger for the patriots. Fell in love with a girl who was already married: andrew and rachel decided to elope and head to natchez along the mississippi, run by spain, for a woman to choose to leave her husband was extraordinarily courageous. Jackson hated backroom deals and inside trade so he resigned and began to raise race horses. In 1805, the dispute began between jackson and charles dickerson due to a comment made about rachel. Jackson and dickinson dueled, dickinson shot first, jackson mortally wounded dickinson but was also shot in the chest: kept the bullet in his chest for the rest of his life. Led attack on creek indians (battle of horseshoe bend: ruthless.
