USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson survived. After Jackson recovered, his mother traveled to Charleston to aid the war effort by nursing injured and sick soldiers. Tragically, while there, she contracted cholera and died, leaving Jackson an orphan at the young age of 14.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soon after the death of his brother, Jackson’s mother died of cholera and Jackson was orphaned at the age of 14. The deaths of his family members led to his lifelong distrust of Britain.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though his birthplace is in dispute, he considered himself a South Carolina native. His father died before his birth and Andrew’s mother and her three small boys moved in with her Crawford relatives. Jackson attended local schools, receiving an elementary education and perhaps a smattering of higher learning.

Detailed explanation-4: -Orphaned at Age 14 At the age of 14, Jackson was orphaned, and the deaths of his family members during the Revolutionary War led to a lifelong antipathy of the British. Raised by his uncles, Jackson began studying law in Salisbury, North Carolina, in his late teens.

Detailed explanation-5: -Andrew Jackson began his military career at the age of 13 when he joined the men and boys of his community to fight off the British at Hanging Rock during the last year of the American Revolution. He entered a law career in North Carolina; then turned it into a political career in Tennessee.