ABSTRACT
Andrew Jackson born in 1767 during Britain's twilight in America, he was permanently affected by the Revolution. Andrew Jackson grew up a wild boy in the Carolinas, two brothers died fighting against the British. In 1806, Jackson traded hard words with Charles Dickinson, a well-liked man-about-town and reputed crack shot, who had made unflattering remarks about Rachel Jackson as part of a tit-for-tat with Jackson. Like Washington, by the mid-1820s Andrew Jackson stood squarely in the middle of partisan, political mayhem however, where Washington had tried to quell the bickering between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson openly participated in the factionalism. During the 1830s and 1840s, Jacksonian Democrats and their Whig opponents battled in Congress and in newspapers about the same issues that had been important ever since the Constitutional Convention: what role the federal government should play in the nation; how to manage the economy; what "democracy" should mean and how it should be enacted.
