Andrew Jackson2
My name is Andrew Jackson, and I was the 7th president of the United States. People tell me that I have a lot to be proud of, because I wasn't just a president, I worked as a prosecuting attorney, and I fought in the war. I've heard people say that I was the best-loved and most-hated president the young nation had ever known. I named a era after myself, and always lived according to the rugged, straightforward code of the American frontier. In 1802, I was elected major general of the military force. The turning point in my life was definitely my service in the War of 1812. One of my first victories was over the Creek Indians. Inspired by the British attacks on the Americans, the Creeks raided frontier settlements in Georgia and Alabama. My Tennessee military and I crushed the Creeks at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, Alabama, on March 27, 1814. After winning that battle, I was then ordered to defend New Orleans. I built up my small regular army, and recruited frontier riflemen from Tennessee and Kentucky, and also gathered a force of volunteers. On January 8, 1815 the British troops charged. It was a massacre; the British withdrew after suffering 2,237 deaths, while we only lost 71.
In 1824, I was nominated by the Tennessee legislature for the presidency of the United States. I received more votes than any of the other four people in the election, but I didn't receive the majority. This meant that the House of Representatives would choose the president. One candidate gave his votes to John Quincy Adams who became the sixth president of the United States. I was soon elected president. On March 4, 1829, I was inaugurated the seventh president of the Unites States. In 1817 I was ordered to the Alabama-Georgia region to defend settlers against attacks by Seminole Indians from Florida. In 1818, I pushed into Spanish-held Florida, and captured Pensacola, and hung two British soldiers as spies. When Spain offered Florida to the United States in 1821, I was appointed by President Monroe to be the first governor. Soon however, I became tired of politics and resigned in late 1821, and planned to retire to a private life, but in 1823 I was elected once more to the Senate. I resigned again in 1825. During my presidency, there was a large amount of slaveholding Southerners in Texas. Most of the settlers favored annexing Texas to the United States, like I did. Texas fought for and won their independence from Mexico, and requested annexation. I refused to press for annexation because the northern states were not in favor of creating a new slave state. On my last day in office, I took
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