How did Andrew Jacksons achievements impact our nations history?
Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was born in the Waxhaws area near the border between North and South Carolina on March 15, 1767. Jackson’s parents lived in North Carolina but historians debate on which side of the state line the birth took place. Jackson was the third child and third son of Scots-Irish parents. His father, also named Andrew, died as the result of a logging accident just a few weeks before the future president was born. Jackson’s mother, Elizabeth (“Betty”) Hutchison Jackson, was by all accounts a strong, independent woman. After her husband’s death she raised her three sons at the South Carolina home of one of her sisters. GO to top iconGO to top The American Revolution The Declaration of Independence was signed when young Andrew was nine years old and at thirteen he joined the Continental Army as a courier. The Revolution took a toll on the Jackson family. All three boys saw active service. One of Andrew’s older brothers, Hugh, died after t
