Andrew Jackson: During the American Revolutionary War Essay Example

school and studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina.In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesboro, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina, and later became Tennessee. Though his legal education was scanty, Jackson knew enough to practice law on the frontier. Since he was not from a distinguished family, he had to make his career by his own merits; soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. Most of the actions grew out of disputed land-claims, or from assaults and battery.

In 1788, he was appointed Solicitor of the Western District and held the same position in the territorial government of Tennessee after 1791.In 1796, Jackson was a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention. When Tennessee achieved statehood in 1796, Jackson was elected its U. S. Representative.

In 1797 he was elected U. S. Senator as a Democratic-Republican. He resigned within a year. In 1798, he was appointed a judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court, serving until 1804. Besides his legal and political career, Jackson prospered as a planter and merchant.

In 1803 he owned a lot, and built a home and the first general store in Gallatin, Sumner County. In 1804, he acquired the "Hermitage", a 640-acre (2. km2) plantation in Sumner County, near Nashville. Jackson later added 360 acres (1. 5 km2) to the farm.

The primary crop was cotton, grown by enslaved workers. Jackson started with nine slaves, by 1820 he held as many as 44, and later held up to 150 slaves.

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