William Henry Jackson

chose is William Henry Jackson. This photographer stood out to me because his photography was outstanding especially of the great outdoors. After going through the pain staking process of choosing a photographer he really stood out the most because of his photos of the outdoors. Even though he is an amazing artist he did marvelous work in the American West. He was more than just a photographer he also did some work as a painter in his early and later parts of his career. William Henry Jackson was also

Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 to Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson in the mountains between North and South Carolina. Jackson was born into poverty and as a result received very little education growing up. When The British invaded the Carolinas around 1780, Jackson’s mother and two brothers were killed during the conflict and British soldiers took the young Andrew Jackson prisoner, leaving him with a lifelong hostility toward Great Britain. In 1781, Jackson

believed that it would unite the Southern planters with the Republicans of the North. In 1824 however, John Quincy Adams, and Henry Clay teamed up to defeat the man who had garnered the most votes by any individual. The plan worked and the two won the presidency. It was dubbed as the “Corrupt Bargain” because the two had “stolen” the presidency from Jackson. Andrew Jackson or “Old Hickory” as he was

unfolding. The primary context for the painting itself was the Panic of 1837 that occurred just as Andrew Jackson was leaving office in 1836, leaving the venerable Martin Van Buren to fend for himself in a mess not of his own doing. The Panic of 1837 was a consequence of many factors sprawling from Jackson’s election in 1828 to 1836. The first of these factors was the bank war between the Jackson administration and the 2nd national bank of the United States created by the market revolution in 1816.

fact that their livelihood rested mainly in shipping. As a result of their newfound fame caused by their actions during the war, Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison gained respect throughout the states. Jackson, was the renowned hero of the Battle of New Orleans, and Harrison, was known for his brilliance and success in fighting the Indians. Both Jackson and Harrison went on to become Presidents of the United States, due mainly to this newfound fame and recognition of their strengths.

George Washington (1789-1797) George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington in Pope’s Creek, Virginia. Even though he was born in Pope’s Creek, Washington actually spent most of youth at a plantation called the Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg. There, he grew up with his 6 brothers and 3 sisters. Three of his brothers were his half-brothers and one of sisters was his half-sister from his father’s first marriage. Washington was educated and went schools near

other is the minority party. Kitchen Cabinet: Andrew Jackson’s Kitchen Cabinet was the unofficial group of advisors and friends that made up his cabinet. His real, official cabinet had many members that were personal rivals and fought all the time. Jackson stopped holding meetings with his cabinet because of the frequent disputes, and eventually all of the members resigned or were fired. The press saw his unofficial cabinet members as unprofessional and began calling them his “Kitchen Cabinet”, because

Beecher's efforts towards attaining higher education for women and advocating female careers in teaching, Harriet Beecher's famous novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin” which helped expose the evils of slavery, and Henry Ward Beecher's work as an antislavery advocate and preacher before and after the Civil War. William Lloyd Garrison was one of the fiercest abolitionist figures of his generation. Garrison launched The Liberator in 1831, a radical weekly antislavery journal, where he called for immediate and unconditional

scrutinized by Adams’ campaign, that Jackson believed it was the cause of her death. “When Jackson was married to his wife, Rachel, they were under the assumption that she was divorced. However, her divorce from her previous marriage was not yet finalized, in which it caused them to remarry once the legal papers were completed” (Boundless 15). Jackson was accused of committing adultery by Adams’ campaign and his wife was even labeled as a whore. Andrew Jackson was known for his military background

of the Democratic-Republican Party in the early 1800s, the core of its membership was composed of farmers, immigrants, and white Southerners. The Whigs formed in 1834 and lasted for 20 years, they were the major political party that opposed Andrew Jackson. The Whigs were created based upon the Federalist beliefs in a strong federal government and adopted many Federalist and National Republican policy ideas, including federal funding for internal improvements, a central bank, and high tariffs to protect