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1830 The "Underground Railroad"  and the Abolitionist Movement was established.Most of the slaves helped by the Underground Railroad escaped borders states like Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland. In the deep South, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 made capturing escaped slaves a lucrative business, and there were fewer hiding places for them.

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He was nicknamed ‘Old Hickory’ because of his toughness.  Jackson is also known to carry a cane made of hickory with which he used to beat people.

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He was elected in 1828 and is the 7th president of the United States. He was born on March 15, 1767 near Lancaster, South Carolina and died on June 8, 1845 at Nashville, Tennessee.

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March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837

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On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the President additional powers in speeding the removal of American Indian communities in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River.

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John C. Calhoun (1829–1832), Martin Van Buren (1833–1837)

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In 1784, when he was seventeen, Jackson decided to become an attorney. He moved to Salisbury, North Carolina, where he studied law by apprenticing with prominent lawyers. After three years, Jackson received his license to practice law in several counties scattered throughout the North Carolina back country.

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Democratic Republican Party

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Jackson’s father, died shortly before he was born. He Raised by his widowed mother in the Waxhaws settlement located near the North Carolina and South Carolina border, Jackson grew up with a large extended family that were also Scots-Irish immigrant farmers.

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Andrew did not attend college instead he went to joined the army.. At the age of 13, he enlisted in the Continental Army, and in 1784, he decided to become a lawyer

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He married Rachel Donelson in 1794. They never had biological kids of their own but they adopted three sons. Theodore,  Lyncoya, Andrew Jackson Jr.

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“Advocate of the American System!!!”