One of three children (all boys), Jackson grew up in near-poverty ... The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of the ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental Army and discovered a future in the military. Promoted to general during the War of 1812, Jackson became a national war hero after a stunning ...

Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh ... He and his family owned more than 300 enslaved men, women and children from 1788 to the end of the Civil War in 1865.