JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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He was born to a rich family but lost his mother at the age of 14
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He was born poor but worked to become a lawyer and politician
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He was born in a log cabin and never got an education
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none of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Family of Origin Andrew Jackson’s parents were Andrew Jackson (d. 1767) and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson (d. 1781), originally of Ireland and immigrants to the United States. They had three sons: Hugh, Robert, and Andrew Jackson (1767-1845).
Detailed explanation-2: -Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty and received very little schooling as a child. His older brother Hugh died of heat stroke during the Battle of Stono Ferry-a battle against the British, near Charleston, SC, during the American Revolution in 1779.
Detailed explanation-4: -Early public career. Jackson became a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, the dominant party in Tennessee. He was elected as a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796. When Tennessee achieved statehood that year, he was elected to be its U.S. representative.