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'''Andrew Jackson''' (March 15 | |Image = Andrew Jackson Daguerrotype-crop.jpg | ||
|fullname = Andrew Jackson | |||
|alias = Old Hickory<br>King Mob<br>The Hero of New Orleans<br>Colonel Jackson<br>Sharp Knife<br>King Andrew the First<br>President Jackson | |||
|occupation = President of the United States (1829 - 1837)<br>U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1797 - 1798, 1823 - 1825) | |||
|origin = Carolina, British America | |||
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[Mass murder]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Slavery]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Hate Speech]]<br>Abuse of power<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Native American Sentiment]]<br>[[Misogyny]] | |||
|goals = Remove the Native Americans (succeeded)<br>End the Abolitionist movement (failed) | |||
|type of villain = Genocidal President}} | |||
{{Quote|The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.|Andrew Jackson}} | |||
'''Andrew Jackson''' (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the 7<sup>th</sup> President of the United States. | |||
He | He championed the rights of the common man and was responsible for many good deeds, including expanding America's territory (including the state of Florida), introducing the Tariff Act in 1832 and providing the people with laws they wanted rather than leaving everything up to Congress. But ultimately, his presidency and reputation were overshadowed by his Indian Removal Act, which killed around 60,000 Cherokee alone, and involved the [[The Trail of Tears]]. He also invaded South Carolina when the state opposed his Tariff act, forcing them to compromise. | ||
He served as an inspiration for two later presidents, also from Tennessee: [[James Polk]] and [[Andrew Johnson]]. | |||
==The Trail of Tears== | ==The Trail of Tears== | ||
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as 'Indian Territory'. | The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 60,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as 'Indian Territory'. | ||
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The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities (state and local militias) following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. Jackson had previously been ordered not to seize Cherokee land by the Supreme Court but had ignored the ruling. | The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities (state and local militias) following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush. Jackson had previously been ordered not to seize Cherokee land by the Supreme Court but had ignored the ruling. | ||
The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated reserve. Thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after they suffered from the | The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their newly designated reserve. Thousands died before reaching their destinations or shortly after they suffered from the disease. | ||
==Other acts of villainy== | ==Other acts of villainy== | ||
*Men, women, and child slaves were owned by Jackson on three sections of the Hermitage plantation. Slaves lived in extended family units of between five and ten persons and were quartered in 400 square feet (37 m2) cabins made either of brick or logs. The size and quality of the Hermitage slave quarters exceeded the standards of his times. | *Men, women, and child slaves were owned by Jackson on three sections of the Hermitage plantation. Slaves lived in extended family units of between five and ten persons and were quartered in 400 square feet (37 m2) cabins made either of brick or logs. The size and quality of the Hermitage slave quarters exceeded the standards of his times. | ||
**Jackson permitted slaves to be whipped to increase productivity or if he believed his slaves' offenses were severe enough. | **Jackson permitted slaves to be whipped to increase productivity or if he believed his slaves' offenses were severe enough. | ||
**At various times he posted advertisements for fugitive slaves who had escaped from his plantation. In one advertisement placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804, Jackson offered "ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred." | **At various times he posted advertisements for fugitive slaves who had escaped from his plantation. In one advertisement placed in the Tennessee Gazette in October 1804, Jackson offered "ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred." | ||
**While in charge of New Orleans he banned all anti-slavery literature from the city and stated that abolitionists deserved to die. | **While in charge of New Orleans, he banned all anti-slavery literature from the city and stated that abolitionists deserved to die. | ||
**He actively delayed the abolition of slavery by banning it from being discussed in Congress. | |||
*He engaged a man named Charles Dickinson in a gun duel after Dickinson made [[Defamation|defamatory]] statements about him in a newspaper. Jackson won the duel, killing Dickinson. His behavior in the duel outraged men in Tennessee, who called it a brutal, cold-blooded killing and saddled Jackson with a reputation as a violent, vengeful man. He became a social outcast. | *He engaged a man named Charles Dickinson in a gun duel after Dickinson made [[Defamation|defamatory]] statements about him in a newspaper. Jackson won the duel, killing Dickinson. His behavior in the duel outraged men in Tennessee, who called it a brutal, cold-blooded killing and saddled Jackson with a reputation as a violent, vengeful man. He became a social outcast. | ||
*In the aftermath of the Battle of New Orleans, he refused to lift martial law, even unlawfully arresting a local judge who tried to get him to lift it via the use of a writ of ''habeas corpus''. There are also reports that he had ordered some surrendered enemy troops to be executed (which would be designated a war crime many years later.) | *In the aftermath of the Battle of New Orleans, he refused to lift martial law, even unlawfully arresting a local judge who tried to get him to lift it via the use of a writ of ''habeas corpus''. There are also reports that he had ordered some surrendered enemy troops to be executed (which would be designated a war crime many years later.) | ||
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Still, Jackson's performance in office compared to other presidents has generally been ranked in the top half in public opinion polling. His position in C-SPAN's poll dropped from 13th in 2009 to 18th in 2017. | Still, Jackson's performance in office compared to other presidents has generally been ranked in the top half in public opinion polling. His position in C-SPAN's poll dropped from 13th in 2009 to 18th in 2017. | ||
== Trivia == | ==Trivia== | ||
*He was known as "Sharp Knife" by the Five Civilized Tribes, because he was an infamous Indian killer and many were killed during the Trail of Tears. | |||
* He was known as "Sharp Knife" by the Five Civilized Tribes, because he was an infamous Indian killer and many were killed during the Trail of Tears. | *He is named before [[Andrew Johnson]] since him and Johnson were the Andrews who were villains and U.S Presidents. | ||
*Despite being against the National Bank, Jackson is on the US twenty-dollar bill. | |||
*He is the first of fourteen US presidents to be on this wiki. The others being [[Martin Van Buren]], [[William Henry Harrison]], [[James K. Polk]], [[Millard Fillmore]], [[Franklin Pierce]], [[James Buchanan]], [[Andrew Johnson]], [[Grover Cleveland]], [[Benjamin Harrison]], [[William McKinley]], [[Woodrow Wilson]], [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Donald Trump]]. | |||
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