Lesson 10 The Northwest
Territory and Andrew Jackson
After the War of 1812 and the defeat of the Indians at
Fallen Timbers more people moved to the Northwest Territory. Ohio became a state in 1803.
Soon Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin became states.
Land was cheap and good for growing groups in this
area. As more people came, cities grew. The cities had stores, lumber, mills, saloons, and
everything else that went with "civilization".
People in the outlying farms lived in rough cabins.
Water had to be carried from streams or rivers to the cabin. They were heated with fire in
fireplaces.
By 1824 one-third of America's population lived west of
the Appalachian Mountains.
Feeling on sectional loyalty had an effect on the Presidential
elections. The first six Presidents had come from either Massachusetts or Virginia. By
1820 people in other parts of the nation wanted a President to come from one of their
states.
| President Andrew Jackson won the election of 1828.
Jackson was a frontiersman and an Indian fighter. He was a hero in the War of 1812.
Jackson led the American troops in the Battle of New Orleans. Jackson was from Tennessee.
He had served in the Congress. Although Jackson was not very well educated, he believed
all citizens had the right to hold office and to vote. Jackson had been a successful
lawyer and judge before becoming President. Jackson hated
Indians and made many leave their homes.He passed a law that no Indians could live east of
the Mississippi River. |
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