Some 20 years later. a vigorous frontier Democrat took his place on the national sceneAndrew Jackson of Tennessee. The hero of the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Jacksons words and actions caught the imagination of Americans everywhere. Southern farmers. small planters. pioneer farmers of the newly settled Northwest Territory. German and Irish immigrants. countryfolk of New England and New Yorkall rallied to the Democratic Party. Workers in the cities. in the process of forming the Nations first labor unions. saw in the Democratic Party principles thenas nowa sympathy for their own aspirations. This new coalition elected Andrew Jackson the seventh President of the United States in 1828.
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