Andrew Jackson and Slavery

8.C&G.1.4 Analyze access to democratic rights and freedoms among enslaved people in North Carolina and the United States during the Jacksonian Era.

Andrew Jackson and Slavery :

Videos watched- 

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJLvzMQ9zak&feature=youtu.be Links to an external site.

* https://youtu.be/pnG0fqdtqNQ  Links to an external site.

After watching the two videos, you will work in pairs to rank the importance of the list below of events that occurred while Andrew Jackson was President. With a list of 10 events, ranks will be 1 is what you and your partner believe is the most important, to 10 being the least. After ranking, please write a short summary of 3-4 sentences explaining why you chose to order the list of events the way you and your partner did. Note: Although you are working in groups, you will turn in your rankings and written responses individually. 

•  First president to ride a train
•  First president to be assaulted (attacked) while in office
•  First president to be the target of an assassination attempt
•  First president born to immigrant parents
•  Last president to serve in the Revolutionary War (he participated at age 13!)
•  The only president to have been held as a prisoner of war
•  The only president to raise a Native American child—Lyncoya, who was found orphaned after the Battle of Tallushatchee (1813)
•  The only president to pay off the national debt
• Jackson was largely self-taught. He read widely from the Bible and the classics to dozens of daily and weekly newspapers.
•  Jackson did not free any of his slaves.