What did Andrew Jackson do in his teen years?

Answer 1

Andrew was born in the Carolina backwoods to an immigrant farming family from Ireland. He fought in the Revolution ( he was 9 years old when the war started), was captured, and imprisoned by the British. By the wars end all but one of his family was dead because of the war. This left him a teenager alone so he eventually decided to study law and to head west. He later became a delegate to the Tennessee constitutional convention, Tennessee's first elected congressman, and in 1798 on the state supreme court. He had a modest estate that he built into a major cotton plantation and was a slaveholder. He won national fame during the War of 1812.

Answer 2

In his teen years, Andrew Jackson experienced a lot of hardship. He was an orphan by the age of 14 and became involved in the Revolutionary War at age 13. He also worked as a teacher and a lawyer's apprentice before eventually joining the military.