Andrew Jackson Dbq Outline

Introduction
Hook:
Andrew Jackson was born in a cabin in 1767. He didnt go to school much as a kid because his family was poor and couldnt afford for him to go to school.
Background Information: In his late teens, he started to study law for 2 years. He became a lawyer and moved to tennessee. Andrew Jackson got into many fights because he did not like to be insulted.

Claim:
I think he was a bad president because he got into many fights and there was a big fight over the second bank of the United states.

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Topic Sentence - Reason:
Jackson fought with the vice president John C. Calhoun. The tariff was a tax in 1812 and the tariff was designed to protect businesses in the northern states. They werent doing so well.
Evidence:

They liked paying lower prices for British goods and they also werent very wealthy so that's another reason they didnt like paying taxes.
Explanation:
He was a good president in this part because you have to pay tax whether you like it or not. I mean you have to pay your taxes. If you dont then they will take your house away. He should be remembered because he was still a president. We will always remember him because he was the 7th united states of america president.
Evidence:
The south hated paying higher taxes they liked paying lower because they arent wealthy whatsoever.
Explanation:
Calhoun nd Jackson held separate views on many issues including states rights. Jackson's hate for Calhoun seems to have had its origin in the Washington social scene of the time. Jackson's feelings were inflamed by Mrs. Calhoun's treatment of Peggy, the wife of Jackson's Secretary of War,John Eaton.
Conclusion:
When jackson got into the fight with calhoun, the word probably got out fast so, the us prob didnt like him as much but that didnt matter back then as much as it does now you could honestly cancel the president if you didnt like him/her with ppl these

Shortly after being imprisoned, he refused to shine the boots of a British officer and was struck across the face with a sabre.
Explanation:
His mother and two brothers died during the closing years of the war, direct or indirect casualties of the invasion of the Carolinas.
Evidence:
This sequence of tragic experiences fixed in Jackson’s mind a lifelong hostility toward great britan. After the end of the american revoloution, he studied law in an office in salisbury, North Carolina, and was admitted to the bar of that state in 1787.
Explanation:
In 1788 he went to the cumberland region as prosecuting attorney of the western district of North Carolina—the region west of the Appalachians, soon to become the state of tennesse.

Conclusion:
When Jackson arrived in nashvillie, the community was still a frontier settlement. As prosecuting attorney, Jackson was principally occupied with suits for the collection of debts.

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Counterargument:
Jackson’s interest in public affairs and in politics had always been keen. He had gone to Nashville as a political appointee, and in 1796 he became a member of the convention that drafted a constitution for the new state of