What was the temperament and political philosophy of Andrew Jackson?
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in his time,  the answer would be " To lead the free world"
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Look at a history book. Put in pictures of Andrew Jackson as well since he was the pres. who forced them to leave. And put in a picture of John Marshall who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice who supported the Cherokee.
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All the Bushes and Clintons....everyone needs to study up a little bit.\n\nFavorite:  Abraham Lincoln.  His writings alone qualify him for this post, regardless of his accomplishments.\n\nLeast Favorite:  Franklin Pierce.   This kid was a mess.  The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the civil war and unrest in the west.  Drank himself to death and once ran over an elderly woman when driving his carraige drunk.  What a tool.
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let's see, in 1000 words or less:\n\nJefferson was an architect of our "constitutional republic" and Hamilton was the architect of our economic system. Each of our founding fathers have had various roles in forging the baseline of who and what America is today. Washington was the 'action hero' who led America's armies and then the government out of it's conception (and then dared to turn over power peacefully! Unheard of!) and created precedence for how power is to be handled. Franklin, the man who embodied the ideals of personal drive and creativity and how success can be achieved in our society. You really need to read all about these people and what they did... you just can't type it out here...
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This means Democracy in its purest form ... Government of the people, by the people, and for the people ... as laid down by Abraham Lincoln (Getty'sburg Address).  Jackson was a co-founder of the Democratic Party.  He was particularly keen on this motto after his first run for presidency failed, notwithstanding that Jackson was popularly considered the "man of the people".  However, no candidate received a majority so the election decision was given to the House of Representatives, which chose John Quincy Adams.  Jackson maintained that a "corrupt bargain" had been made because Henry Clay gave his vote to Adams - who then made Clay Secretary of State.  Jackson called for the abolition of the Electoral College.\n\nHowever, this democracy of the people did not appear to have included the native American Indian - (Indian Removal Act 1830) - since it was Jackson's removal policies which literally created Reservation ghettos.  His Government negotiated so-called treaties with the hapless natives and paid peanuts for the lucrative and fertile grounds which the native American Indian considered their natural home.  The later Treaty of New Echota, 1838, (negotiated after gold was found on the Cherokee lands) resulting in the Cherokee "Trail of Tears".\n\nObviously, in Jackson's eyes, some people were more "democratically" equal than others!!
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Andrew Jackson was known as "Old Hickory".  You can find a biography which explains how he got the nickname here: http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm
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George Washington!  He was a tobacco farmer and also the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.\n\nHe had teeth made of ivory too.
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Abraham Lincoln. Preserved the union despite the civil war and freed the slaves. He was a great thinker and orator as well.
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Thomas Jefferson\n\nIn the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."\n\nThis powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.\n\nFreckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and awkward, Jefferson was eloquent as a correspondent, but he was no public speaker. In the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress, he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause. As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence. In years following he labored to make its words a reality in Virginia. Most notably, he wrote a bill establishing religious freedom, enacted in 1786.\n\n\nJefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet. He resigned in 1793.\n\nSharp political conflict developed, and two separate parties, the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans, began to form. Jefferson gradually assumed leadership of the Republicans, who sympathized with the revolutionary cause in France. Attacking Federalist policies, he opposed a strong centralized Government and championed the rights of states.\n\nAs a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Jefferson came within three votes of election. Through a flaw in the Constitution, he became Vice President, although an opponent of President Adams. In 1800 the defect caused a more serious problem. Republican electors, attempting to name both a President and a Vice President from their own party, cast a tie vote between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The House of Representatives settled the tie. Hamilton, disliking both Jefferson and Burr, nevertheless urged Jefferson's election.\n\nWhen Jefferson assumed the Presidency, the crisis in France had passed. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. Further, although the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, Jefferson suppressed his qualms over constitutionality when he had the opportunity to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803.\n\nDuring Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen. Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular.\n\nJefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe."\n\nHe died on July 4, 1826.
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He was a very competent general who inspired the Confederates to have high morale and confidence in the face of a tough and relentless oppponent (when the Union finally managed to get going and fight the war instead of sitting at the Potomac planning to fight it). He was a master tactician, and allowed an under-equipped and outnumbered army to hold off a numerically superior and better equipped adversary much of the time. A lot of the credit goes to Lee for this, but I think Beauregard and Jackson did most of the actual work.
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Nullification Crisis \n\nThe biggest crisis of Jackson's Presidency, started by South Carolina opposition to the tariffs leveled in 1828 and 1832 by Jackson supporters. "Nullifiers" thought that a state could nullify a federal law within its own borders if it so desired. When South Carolina, led by John C. Calhoun, announced its intention to nullify the tariffs in the fall of 1832, it touched off what almost developed into a civil war, as Jackson massed military resources on the state's borders. Finally resolved in the spring of 1833 when South Carolina agreed to a new fairer tariff passed by Congress.
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Martin Van Buren\nhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffpres8.htm
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john locke thpught that man was bassically good and had only to be left alone and his goodness would come out. he thought that every mans "self" ( including his) was of God and perfect and woule eventually result in a good world. He did not think it was necessary to force man to be good with rules and punishments and so forth. his basisc nature was to be kind and love and share and help. \nHe was one of the first people to express what is now called a liberal philosophy, in western philosophy of the more modern era. Of course these ideas were not new but at the time were radical as his nemesis, A guy named HObbes, had written an important political book expressing just the ooposite, that man was eveil and had to be controlled to prevent him from anarchy and chos and sin. Both were wrong as men are all things and each is unique.
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No, he was an anti-federalist and later a democrat.  As such he was bitterly opposed to many of the actions the federalists wanted to take, which had they been successful would now mean you would have a very strong presidency and a weaker congress.  Now Hamilton was kind of the supreme federalist, advocating a strong central government (opposing the articles of confederation).
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not in list form but here you go: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html \n\nalso wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson (has a triva section)
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).\n\nA political philosopher who promoted classical liberalism, republicanism, and the separation of church and state, he was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786), which was the basis of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party which dominated American politics for over a quarter-century and was the precursor to today's Democratic Party. Jefferson also served as the second Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793), and second Vice President (1797–1801).
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Thomas Jefferson.  He believed in limited government powers, and believed in the small community.