Early Life
The border region between North & South Carolina where Jackson was born in 1767.
What is the Waxhaws?
Jackson’s wife, whose 1828 death he blamed on campaign slander; he wore black in mourning for life.
Who is Rachel Jackson?
The 1814 battle where Jackson crushed the Red Stick Creeks, opening Alabama & Mississippi to settlement.
What is the battle of Horseshoe bend?
Jackson was the first president born in this present-day U.S. state (Tennessee entered the Union in 1796).
What is South Carolina?
The “monster” institution Jackson called a tool of the rich; its charter he vetoed in 1832.
What is the Second Bank of the United States?
At age 13, Jackson served as a courier in this war and was briefly imprisoned by the British.
What is the American Revolution?
The 1806 duel in which Jackson killed a man over insults to Rachel.
What is the Dickenson Duel?
The war in which Jackson won his greatest victory—after a peace treaty had already been signed.
What is the war of 1812?
The first president to ride to his inauguration on this newfangled transport (not a carriage).
What is a train?
Jackson’s 1832 veto message claimed the Bank violated this foundational principle of equal rights.
What is equality?
This profession Jackson practiced in Salisbury, NC, before moving to Tennessee in 1788.
What is law (or lawyer)?
This informal group of friends and journalists advised Jackson outside the official cabinet.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
The city where Jackson’s 8,000 troops routed 7,500 British veterans on January 8, 1815.
What is New Orleans?
Jackson holds this record: more vetoes than the combined total of the first six presidents.
What is 12?
Nickname for the state-chartered banks that received federal deposits after Jackson killed the national bank.
What are pet banks?
The name of the Nashville-area plantation Jackson built and lived on for most of his adult life.
What is the Hermatige?
In 1835, would-be assassin Richard Lawrence’s two pistols misfired; Jackson attacked him with this.
What is his cane?
Jackson earned this nickname from soldiers who said he was “tough as” this tree.
What is Ol' Hickory
The first (and only) president to completely pay off this in 1835.
What is the national debt?
This Treasury Secretary resigned in 1831 rather than remove deposits early; Jackson replaced him with Roger Taney.
Who is William Duane
The only U.S. president to have been a former prisoner of war.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Jackson adopted this Native American orphan after the 1814 Creek War and raised him as a son.
Who is Lyncoya?
DAILY DOUBLE! The exact (estimated) number of British casualties (killed, wounded, missing) at New Orleans—vs. 71 Americans.
What is 2,036?
Jackson was the first president formally censured by this body.
What is the Senate?
The 1836 order requiring public land be paid for in gold or silver—helped trigger the Panic of 1837.
What is Specie Circular?