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    Throughout all of history there have been many presidents. In this paper I will be explaining about how the 7th president Andrew Jackson created Andrew Jackson and the Whig Party were similar in many ways, but Jackson started the Spoils System, Indian Removal Act, The Bank War, and created the Whig Party, which then followed him throughout his presidency. So what was Andrew Jackson’s life like before he became the 7th president of the United States of America. Andrew Jackson was born along

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    marked the period where white men and recently freed African Americans quarreled over the concept of equality on the basis of race as well as where freedom extended to. After the Civil War, there was a power struggle between the Republican and Democratic parties as they had extremely distinct ideas on whether African Americans should be free and hold citizen rights. African Americans were able to achieve citizenship as well as have "equality" through the 14th amendment, however the struggle did not

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    The democratic political party is often linked to the liberal viewpoint (CITE BOOK). With the current presidential election happening soon, the articles show a positive message to the Democratic party. Yet the articles mentioning the Republican party tend to be in a negative tone or at a minimum do not make that viewpoint seem positive. One such article that showed this was

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    over the new country. The son of Irish immigrants, Jackson received little formal schooling. The British invaded the Carolinas in 1780-1781, and Jackson’s mother and two brothers died during the conflict, leaving him with a lifelong hostility toward Great Britain. At the age of thirteen Jackson began his military career.When war broke out between the United States and Britain his leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero.

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    The Electoral College in The United States

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    Jr, a virtually unchallenged bid in the Democratic primary, as he carried all of the delegates, with the stance and platform of being a more moderate alternative to the liberal Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. The Republican Party was locked in a more challenged series of primaries with the two frontrunners being Senator John McCain of Arizona, and Governor George W. Bush of Texas. The major third party candidates were consumer advocate of the Green Party Ralph Nader, and his running mate Winona

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    two factions: Democratic-Republicans and Federalists. These two parties battled for control of the country until the dissolution of the Federalist party after the War of 1812. This led to the Era of Good Feelings, in which America’s government operated for the first time under a one-party system, but the Era came to an end with the Election of 1824, where the party split in two in support of two opposing candidates. The new National Republican party, later evolving into the Whig party, formed around

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    There were many country-splitting issues that characterized the United States in the 19th century. A major one of these issues was Manifest Destiny, the belief that the United States was destined to extend its territory west to the Pacific Ocean. There were both positive and negative aspects to expansion in the era of Manifest Destiny. Expansionism in the 1840's was good for absolutely no one but the Americans. There were many Native American populations in the Midwest that were uprooted and forced

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    consider voting for President Obama's appointee, Judge Merrick Garland. Republicans have argued it would be best to let the next president elected fill the vacancy. According to The New York Times, the case decided on Tuesday by the Supreme Court's refusal to restore Ohio's golden week was called "Ohio Democratic Party v. Husted, No. 16A223." After the 2004 election, when long lines prevented many people from voting in time, Ohio decided to allow people to vote in-person 35 days before Election Day

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    me watching the news with my family, and they were talking about some speech the president had given at the time. I remember they showed a video of a man in a suit finishing up his speech and the people started clapping. At the time, I was like 8 years old and I got curious so I asked who he was, and my family said “that’s the president”. It wasn’t till later on that I actually learned the president’s role and mine as a citizen. To me, the president is the face of the political party that he represents

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    in 1850. Of a stroke. Millard Fillmore got a job as a clerk with a local judge, Fillmore joined the Anti-Masonic Party as a young lawyer, and his political career began. In 1828, he ran for the New York State Assembly and won, Fillmore supported the protective tariff and eliminating the slave trade between the states. He eventually joined the Whig Party through his association with party boss Thurlow Weed, who would later help Abraham Lincoln become president. Personal life He was a lawyer before

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