WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Hist stunning good looks
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His policies on Native Americans
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He was a man of the people (humble beginnings) and he was a war hero
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His ability to binge watch Friends for hours with no breaks
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson was the first president who had been born in a log cabin and thus, the first to have come from humble beginnings. He worked his way up in the military to become a major general and led the defeat against the British at the Battle of New Orleans. He later became a judge and congressman.
Detailed explanation-2: -Andrew Jackson was the first to be elected president by appealing to the mass of voters rather than the party elite. He established the principle that states may not disregard federal law.
Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson laid the framework for democracy, paid off the national debt, gained new lands for America, strengthened relationships with foreign nations globally and issued a new currency.
Detailed explanation-4: -Common Man: the everyday, working class man – not a wealthy landowner or man of power like a politician. Andrew Jackson, despite his high office, became emblematic of the common man because he came from humble beginnings.