Presidential Mini-Episode: Andrew Jackson

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Bleav + Olivia

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🗓️ 16 November 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Olivia's mommy teaches us about our seventh president, Andrew Jackson.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:02.2	Today!
0:03.2	Bye, Mommy!
0:04.4	It's going to talk about.
0:07.0	And new boxing!
0:08.5	Thank you, Noah, for introducing Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States.
0:14.9	After losing the 1824 election that many thought he should have won,
0:20.7	Andrew Jackson started preparing immediately for
0:23.5	1828. He was extremely popular and many citizens saw Jackson as a representative of the common man.
0:33.0	All previous presidents had only appealed to the wealthy and came from the states of Virginia and Massachusetts.
0:40.3	Andrew Jackson, on the other hand, had no formal education and was the first president that
0:45.4	didn't come from one of the original 13 colonies. Before becoming president, Andrew Jackson was
0:52.5	best known as a war hero.
1:00.2	On January 8, 1815, the British attacked the Port City of New Orleans.
1:06.6	More than 2,000 British soldiers lost their lives in that battle compared to just 13 Americans.
1:14.1	It was under Jackson's leadership that the Americans were able to withstand the British attack with so few casualties.
1:18.3	There is a terrible irony about the Battle of New Orleans.
1:23.8	It was actually fought after the British and United States had agreed to end the war.
1:28.8	Unfortunately, for all of the soldiers that lost their lives in that fateful battle,
1:35.3	news traveled very slowly in 1815, and news that a truce had been reached had not yet reached New Orleans. In the election of 1828, Andrew Jackson soundly beat John Quincy Adams by earning
1:44.0	more than twice as many electoral votes as Adams.
1:48.5	When he ran for re-election in 1832, Jackson's victory was even more decisive as he beat Henry
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