HIST 2055 Lecture : Notes Nov 3
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Andrew jackson: old hickory: the first president who was a country man , who didn"t come from wealth or the east coast (virginia, massachusetts, a very controversial man. Jacksonian democracy: he jumpstarted the idea that americans were going places: his democracy was the transition from revolutionary period. Daniel boone= first frontiersman: lived with the indians for 2 years, he escaped and went back home to north carolina, led the way for future western settlement. Jackson moved to tennessee when he was 19: learned law from his job copying documents, was sponsored by a guy to become the chief prosecutor in the western half of tennessee. Jackson knew aaron burr: burr came to jackson and got him involved in the making of raising an army in the event of the filibuster. John sevier=the governor of tn who was privileging eastern tn over. Jackson is constantly bashed because he didn"t have a good education.
