Ellen Barnes's List: Age of Democracy

• Carolinas in 1767
• control of the Federal administration in Washington.
• recommended eliminating the Electoral College
• defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson
• Henry Clay, Daniel Webster
• Whig leaders
• cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.
• used his power of the veto
• Second Bank of the United States
• greatest party battle
• virtually a Government-sponsored monopoly

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• Andrew Jackson never met his father
• After the war
• Salisbury, North Carolina
• studied law by day
• hooligan at night.

  • Jackson is called a hooligan - in today's world do you think he would have been elected if is younger years were recorded by the paparazzi
• public prosecutor
• At age 20,
• Nashville
• Ever the hothead
• Rachel Donelson Robards was married
• claim that they married in 1791
• three years later
• legally married
• opponents charged him with wife stealing and bigamy

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