Jan 1, 2010
Article abstract: Possessing the characteristics of the roughly hewn Western frontiersman as opposed to aristocratic propensities of the Eastern and Virginia “establishment,” Jackson came to symbolize the common man in America and the rise of democracy.
Andrew Jackson was born March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaw settlement of South Carolina. Jackson’s family came from County Antrim, Ireland. His father, Andrew, arrived in America in 1765 and died shortly before his son, the future president, was born. Andrew’s teenage years were “rough and...
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