Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States in 1829 to 1837. He served as a member of the U.S Representative, Senator, and lastly President. Jackson was the only president that paid off the national debt before he left the office. He represented the average people, which were white poor and rich people. The goal for his Indian Removal was expansion into the Southwest for southern planters.Jackson was the only president that used veto the most, which was 12 times.
In 1829, when Peggy O’ Neal Timberlake married John Eaton, women started gossiping about her. Her husband before John, committed suicide, so people thought that it was all because he found out about the affair Peggy and John had. This had almost caused problems for Jackson’s Cabinet. Then, Andrew Jackson took part in this and attempted to force the wives of his Cabinet members to accept her, but the Cabinet members mostly leave.
John Eaton was a U.S Senator at a young age and the Secretary of War from 1829 to 1831 during Andrew Jackson’s Presidency. …show more content…
Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States, from 1861 to 1865, during the Civil War.
He was also a state legislator in the 1830s. During his presidency, Lincoln removed the habeas corpus. His first step to end slavery was the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but it only became effective in those states that were in rebellion. His Gettysburg Address in 1863, was a short speech, in which he said that the war they fought was fought for people’s equality and principles of liberty. After the war, when Robert E. Lee surrendered, days later Abraham Lincoln was shot on the back of his head by John Wilkes Booth, and
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William Lloyd Garrison was an important and well known American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He favored immediate emancipation of enslaved people and was one of the people who found the American Slave Society. Besides being against slavery, he supported the women suffrage movement. In 1831, he found The Liberator.
Joseph Smith found Mormonism and was a religious leader. He wrote books about the religion and led his people to the west in 1831. Then, in 1844, John Smith and the people that followed him upset the rest of the people, who weren’t apart of them, by ruining the newspapers. The reason for this was because the newspapers were insulting Smith. After the incident, he was murdered in jail by a mob.
John Edgar Thomson was an engineer and was assigned to be in charge of the Camden and Amboy Railroad in 1830. Before that, he was an engineer for a rail line.
Samuel Worcester was a missionary to Cherokee’s, minister, and in the Trail of Tears in 1836, he disobeys the law in Georgia. Then, he stays on Cherokee land, which results in his arrest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a poet and led the Transcendentalist movement. Later on, in his life, he chose to walk away from the religious beliefs and in 1837, he gave a speech called The American Scholar.
Martin Van Buren was the eighth Vice President and the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. He was an important person in the making of the Democratic Party and the Second Party System. Van Buren supported free trade and decreased tariffs.
Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave from 1838 and created the 54th Black Regiment of Massachusetts. He was the editor of the North Star, which was an abolitionist paper. Besides being an abolitionist for slaves, he encouraged women’s suffrage movement.
Horace Greeley was an editor and publisher for a newspaper he created called the New York Tribune in 1840.