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Andrew Jackson: Garnet Character
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837, after he became a national hero by defeating the British at New Orleans in 1815. As president he fought the Bank of the United States and signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which led to the forced removal of Native nations, and he was an enslaver who held about 150 people when he died at his Tennessee plantation, the Hermitage.
- Cost
- 3 crystals
- Type
- Character · Rebel
- Power / Health
- 3 / 2
- Color
- Garnet (Rebels, Pirates & War)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
On play: deal 1 damage to each enemy character.
Populist president whose face on the twenty-dollar bill would horrify him almost as much as his policies horrify modern historians.
The real history
Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region of South Carolina. As a boy he served in the Revolution and was held as a British prisoner of war, and by 14 he had lost his parents and both brothers. He studied law, moved to Nashville in 1788 and served as a congressman, senator and judge.
As a major general in the War of 1812, Jackson defeated the Creek Nation at Horseshoe Bend in 1814, and the treaty that followed took most Creek land in Alabama and southern Georgia. On January 8, 1815, he crushed a British attack at New Orleans. To many Americans, he now ranked second only to George Washington as a national hero.
Jackson won the presidency in 1828 and again in 1832, presenting himself as a champion of ordinary people against privilege. He replaced many officials with loyal supporters, a practice critics called the spoils system. In the Bank War, he vetoed the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832 and then pulled federal money out of it. He also faced down South Carolina's attempt to nullify a federal tariff.
His most lasting policy was Indian removal. In 1830 he pushed Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act, which offered western land in exchange for the homelands of southeastern nations. He backed Georgia against the Cherokee even after the Supreme Court upheld the tribe's rights. In 1838, under his successor, soldiers forced more than 16,000 Cherokee from their homes and sent them west on what became known as the Trail of Tears. Thousands of Native people died because of removal.
Jackson was also an enslaver. He held about 95 people when he was elected president, and about 150 when he died at the Hermitage in 1845.
Sources
- Andrew Jackson: Domestic Affairs, Miller Center, University of Virginia
- Jackson, Andrew, Tennessee Encyclopedia
- Enslaved Community, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage
- History and Culture, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, National Park Service
How the card plays
Andrew Jackson costs 3 crystals and is a 3/2 Garnet Rebel for Blackbeard decks. When he enters play, he deals 1 damage to each enemy character.
That small sweep destroys 1-health characters and tokens, such as 1/1 Tinkers and 0/1 Lightbulbs, and softens everything else for the rest of your turn. Charge first and then play him to finish off wounded enemies, or play him first so your charges trade better. Battle of Bunker Hill deals 4 damage to one enemy and then 2 to each, and together they clear most small fields. Charles Lee adds another point of damage after a charge, and Alvin York deals 1 damage to an enemy whenever it charges.
- Playable in decks led by Edward Teach "Blackbeard", and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Garnet.
- In the Blackbeard starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-Aj4BPwFAAUEBQgFDAUQCRQFGAkcBSAFJAkoBSwFMAU0BTgFPAlACUQFSAVMCVAFVAVYBVwFYAVkBWgFbAVwBXQJeAW9C - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Jackson
What was the Trail of Tears?
It was the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its homelands in the Southeast to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in 1838 and 1839, under the removal policy Jackson set in motion. More than a thousand Cherokee died on the journey, and perhaps several thousand more died from its effects.
Why is Andrew Jackson controversial?
He was a popular war hero and a forceful president, but he also enslaved people and drove the removal of Native nations from the Southeast, including the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears.
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