Andrew Jackson7th President of the United States (1829-1837)

Born March 15, 1767 – Died June 8, 1845

Alabama’s First President

Jackson Statueby Clark Mills, 1853,

near the

White House in

Lafayette Square

General

Andrew Jacksonby Thomas Sully, 1824

At least forty-two locations named for him including Jackson County in Alabama

Franklin (163), Washington (142), Jefferson (65), Jackson (61)

(Presidential Ratings 1996 5th, 2016-18 17th)

Presentation by Phil Wirey, updated August 2019

Rachel DonelsonJohn Donelson

John SevierJohn Coffee Davy Crockett John C. Calhoun

Captain George Fields

"I know of no great service you have rendered the country except taking a trip with another man's wife.“, John Sevier, 1803

Chrono-

logical

order

President

Schlesing-

er 1948

poll rank

Schlesing-

er 1962

poll rank

1982

Murray-

Blessing

survey of

846

historians

Average

poll

ranking

16 Abraham Lincoln 1 1 1 1.0 Wartime President

1 George Washington 2 2 3 2.3 Military General

32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 3 3 2 2.7 Wartime President

28 Woodrow Wilson 4 4 6 4.7 Wartime President

3 Thomas Jefferson 5 5 4 4.7 Vice President

7 Andrew Jackson 6 6 7 6.3 Military General

26 Theodore Roosevelt 7 7 5 6.3

Vice President /

Colonel Spanish War

33 Harry S. Truman – 9 8 8.5 Wartime President

2 John Adams 9 10 9 9.3 Vice President

11 James K. Polk 10 8 12 10.0 Wartime President

22, 24 Grover Cleveland 8 11 17 12.0 Governor

6 John Quincy Adams 11 13 16 13.3 Secretary of State

4 James Madison 14 12 14 13.3 Wartime President

5 James Monroe 12 18 15 15.0 Secretary of State

America’s

Greatest

Presidents?

1920’s Ratings Phil’s Ratings Indian Removal *

George Washington Andrew Jackson George Washington

Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Jackson George Washington Andrew Jackson

Theodore Roosevelt Ulysses S. Grant Abraham Lincoln

Mount Rushmore – Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Roosevelt

“The removal of the tribes from the territory

which they now inhabit...would not only shield

them from impending ruin, but promote their

welfare and happiness. Experience has

clearly demonstrated that in their present

state it is impossible to incorporate them in

such masses, in any form whatever, into our

system.”

* Preferred Drinks: Dark Beer, Wine, Champagne, Whiskey, Water

Mint Julep

General Mad

Anthony

Wayne

Compact of

1802

The Long

Walk

Calvin Coolidge

Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration

of Independence (he is the

present King of Great-Britain):

He has excited domestic

Insurrections amongst us, and has

endeavored to bring on the

Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the

merciless Indian Savages, whose

known Rule of Warfare, is an

undistinguished Destruction, of all

Ages, Sexes and Conditions.

Royal Proclamation of 1763

Treaty of Paris

Andrew Jackson’s Homes and Occupations (1767-1845)

Homes

Waxhaw (NC, SC), Jonesboro, Nashville (TN), Natchez (MS),

Pensacola (FL), Melton’s Bluff (Lawrence County), Jackson Hollow (Sheffield) (AL), Washington (DC)

Occupations

•Saddle Maker, School Teacher, Lawyer

•Solicitor of the Western District

•Delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention

•U.S. Representative

•U.S. Senator as a Democratic-Republican.

•Judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court

•Governor of Florida

•Colonel and General State Militia

•General US Army – Southern Division (William Henry Harrison – General Northern Division)

•Commissioner to the Indians under William Crawford and John C. Calhoun, from 1814 to 1824 Jackson

(called Sharp Knife) was instrumental in negotiating nine out of eleven treaties with the Southern Tribes

•Planter, slave owner, merchant, distiller, breeder of racing horses

•Fought ?? duels, wounded once in which he killed Charles Dickinson,

most famous duel was with John Sevier

•Mason, professed no religious affiliation during presidency, Methodist, Presbyterian

7th US President

Abraham Lincoln referred to Andrew Jackson’s addresses when planning his own inaugural address.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to Jackson as his favorite president and visited Hermitage

Early Forts and Settlements East Tennessee

highlighting Early Settlers of Morgan County, AL

(Goodspeed’s 1886 Tennessee Map)

Clinton (orig. Burrsville,

renamed for VP George Clinton)

Sutherland’s Ferry

White’s Fort - Knoxville

Southwest Point - Kingston

Craig, Houston’s, Black’s

Stations - near Maryville

Governor’s Station – John

Sevier’s Home, Marble Springs

Stephen Heard

John Menefee

Dr. John Sutherland

Captain Joel Wallace and Esther

Houston, great aunt of Sam Houston

Moytoy I, great-grandfather of Chief

Black Fox

George Fields alerts Campbell and

McCaleb at Campbell’s Station of

Cherokee activities

Aaron Burleson II, 1784, killed by

Indians crossing Cane Creek on Clinch

River with Daniel Boone

Davy Crockett

Doublehead’s Massacre, 1793, 13 killed

Black Fox, born 1746 at

Eustanali, perhaps on

Eastaunaula Creek flowing

into Hiwassee River

Fort Patrick Henry,

beginning of Colonel

John Donelson’s 1779-80

voyage to French Lick

(Kingsport to Nashville)

Elk Gardens

Sevierville

Morristown

Native American Attacks on Settlers

•One settler killed every 10 days in 1789

•Cumberland area had 62 deaths during 1791-1792

•Knoxville reported 71 deaths in 7 months in 1793

•Martha Crawley Massacre, Duck River in 1812, 7

members of Manley family killed, Martha Crawley

rescued by Tandy Walker, taken to St. Stephens

•Fort Mims Massacre in 1813, 514 killed

•General Jackson attacks in October 1813

Little Pigeon River

Watauga Settlement

Tri-Cities, Elizabethton, Jonesboro, Rocky Mount (William Cobb – 5th ggf)

Jonesboro

George

Fields

Camp CoffeeCotaco CreekFlint Creek

referred to in Chickasaw Certificate of 7-21-1794

as Teuchacunda, Tenchacunda, or Tarchecunda

Creek, also called Creek of Wild Corn (possibly

from Yuchi tribe, Children of the Sun)

Hutchings Bluffs, also

referred to as Long Bluff

Colonel John Donelson’s

voyage in the boat

Adventure passes here

March 11-12, 1780

Foxes Creek

Mallet Creek

Melton’s Bluff

(Andrew

Jackson’s

Plantation 1816)

Spring Creek

Pathkiller’s Creek

Big Nance, Na-Ni,

sister to

Doublehead

Town Creek

Campell’s Ferry

Coldwater Creek

Rose’s Bluff

Caney Creek

Bear Creek

Armstrong Ridge

Huntsville

John Coffee Map

Approved: March 15, 1816

Surveyors: John Hutchings, Charles Bright

Chickasaw

Old Fields

44 Mile Tree on

Gaines Road

surveyed by

General

Edmund P.

Gaines and

possible

location of Flat

Rock on the

Little Bear

Creek. He was

with General

William Henry

Harrison's army

at the Battle of

the Thames and

is buried in

Mobile.

Tennessee River, originally called

Hogohegee, River of the Cherokee,

or Cusatees River, eventually

named after Tannassee Cherokee

Indian Village

Stephen Heard

John Menefee

Dr. John Sutherland

Captain Joel Wallace

and Esther Houston

Chief Black Fox

Captain George Fields

Jonathan Burleson

Davy Crockett

John Coffee

Fort Deposit

Lanes

Springs

Home of Major William Russell,

Gaines Road and Andrew

Jackson HighwayCreeks Crossing

Basis Meridian runs along

side Maple Hill Cemetery

Hazel Green

Winchester

York Bluff

(Andrew

Jackson 1817)

Muscle Shoals

Revolutionary War

Martha Crawley Incident

Creek Indian War

Major Ridge

William Weatherford Release

Battle of New Orleans

Duals

Presidential Elections

Death of Rachel

Like Jefferson Died in Debt

Major Ridge Henry Clay John Calhoun

“I have only two regrets,

that I never shot Henry Clay

or hanged John C.

Calhoun.”

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson 1767-1845

Military career (7-0-1)

•Courier in Revolutionary War (captured)

•Creek Indian War (3-0-1)

•War of 1812 (1-0) 7th Military District

•First Seminole War (3-0)

(George Washington (6-10) - French Indian War (2-2),

Revolutionary War (3-6), Washington’s War (1-2))

Presidency, beginning of Jacksonian Period

•Won popular vote in elections of 1824, 1828, 1832

•1st populist president and 1st modern president

•Began spoils system, liberal use of the veto system,

12 vetoes (10 by first six presidents, 635 by FDR)

•Survived first presidential attack and assassination attempt

•Pushed Indian Removal Act through Congress

•Handled the France debt crisis without going to war

•Handled the Nullification crisis while

keeping South Carolina from succeeding

•Headed opposition to the National Bank and

Nicholas Biddle due to corruption

•Only president to retire the National Debt

From James Parton

Three Volume Set

1860’s

Key Points:

The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern States were

annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites.

We now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men of the South and West

by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to land where

their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual.

The red man … is unwilling to submit to the laws of the States and mingle with their

population. To save him from this alternative, or perhaps utter annihilation, the General

Government kindly offers him a new home, and proposes to pay the whole expense of

his removal and settlement.

It puts an end to all possible danger of collision between the authorities of the General

and State Governments on account of the Indians.

The settlement of the whites .. will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier and

render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future invasions without remote aid.

It will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; free them

from the power of the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and

under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their

numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the Government and

through the influence of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become an

interesting, civilized, and Christian community.

Transcript of President Andrew Jackson’s

1830 Annual Message to Congress, Subject - Indian Removal45,000 American Indians were relocated to the West

during Jackson's and Van Buren’s administration

Andrew Jackson’s Last Words -

“Oh, do not cry - be good children

and we will all meet in heaven.”

Hannah

Jackson,

c. 1880

The tomb of

Andrew and

Rachel

Donelson

Jackson

When

asked if

Jackson

had gone

to Heaven,

a slave

replied,

“If the

General

wants to

go, who is

going to

stop

him?”

Uncle

Alfred

Jackson,

buried

next to

General

Jackson

The

Hermitage,

built 1819,

burned 1834,

rebuilt 1835,

damaged by

fire in 1836,

sold to state

in 1856