Early Life
Andrew Jackson is the first president to come from _______.
What is poverty?
After the close of the war, Jackson was named the _________ of the southern district.
What is Commander?
When Adams appointed Clay secretary of state, it seemed to admirers of Jackson to confirm rumors of a “_______ _______” between Adams and Clay
What is a Corrupt Bargain?
Gradually the weight of ___ and _______ bore down on Jackson. His health had been precarious for many years, yet he had recovered from the brink so many times that friends half-seriously questioned his mortality.
What is age and illness?
In addition to the $20 bill, Jackson appeared on the $_, $__, and $__,___ notes at various times.
What is $5, $10, and $10,000?
Andrew Jackson's parents were originally from _______.
What is Ireland?
In a campaign of about five months, in ____-____, Jackson crushed the Creeks, the final victory coming in the Battle of Tohopeka in Alabama.
What is 1813–1814?
In the election of 1828 Jackson defeated Adams by an electoral vote of 178 to 83 after a campaign in which _____________ and _______ played a larger part than in any previous U.S. national election.
What is personalities and slander?
Jackson had long anticipated death and faced it without fear. He died at The Hermitage on ____ _, ____, surrounded by family and friends, and was buried in his garden next to Rachel.
What is June 8th, 1845?
In January ____, President Jackson was confronted by a deranged man as he left a funeral held at the Capitol. The man fired point-blank at Jackson with a pistol, but the gun misfired.
What is 1835?
His mother and two brothers died during the closing years of the war, direct or indirect casualties of the invasion of the Carolinas. This sequence of tragic experiences fixed in Jackson’s mind a lifelong hostility toward _____ _______.
What is Great Britain?
A series of small skirmishes between the two armies culminated in the ______ __ ___ _______ on January 8, 1815, in which Jackson’s forces inflicted a decisive defeat upon the British army and forced it to withdraw.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
In the election of ____ four candidates received electoral votes.
What is 1824?
In ____, Jackson retired to the Hermitage outside of Nashville, but he remained an influence in national politics.
What is 1837?
Andrew Jackson received a _,___-pound cheddar wheel as a gift in 1835 and kept it in the White House lobby for two years.
What is 1,400?
Both _____ and _____ ________ claimed Andrew Jackson as a native son.
What is North & South Carolina?
In August 1814, Jackson moved his army south to Mobile. Though he was without specific instructions, his real objective was the Spanish post at _________.
What is Pensacola?
Jackson’s ________ ________ led to suggestions that he become a candidate for president, but he disavowed any interest.
What are military triumphs?
Andrew Jackson's wife died at the Hermitage on ________ __, ____.
What is December 22, 1828?
_______ ________ attempted to assassinate Jackson, causing the first attempted presidential assassination.
Who is Richard Lawrence?
Shortly after being __________, Jackson refused to shine the boots of a British officer and was struck across the face with a sabre.
What is imprisoned?
News of the signing of the ______ __ _____ between the United States and Great Britain on December 24, 1814, reached the capital.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
In 1822 a small group of friends maneuvered ___ _________ ___________ into a formal nomination of Andrew Jackson as a candidate for president.
What is the Tennessee legislature?
He developed severe edema, a symptom of __________ _____ _______.
What is congestive heart failure?
Andrew Jackson was the only president to have been a ________ __ ___.
What is a prisoner of war?