andrew jackson

18 May 1778 - Walnut Grove Manor, Philadelphia, Colony/Commonwealth of Pennsylvania There are a lot of things on William Howe's mind, most of them to do with the week facing him, his last week in America. Why what will they make of him back home? Why he may have conquered New York and seized...

While working on a test for my students, I had a loose idea for a fun way to tell a story, this is the end result of that stray idea. Enjoy the test my students might have taken in another world. I shall make no claims of plausibility and mainly chose ideas that seemed fun. If people think this...

I doubt Jackson himself would encourage it (He's a whiny asshole, but not that big of a whiny asshole), but we've seen how Jackson supporters act. So what if they raided the capitol to overturn the election results like January 6th? What would happen to Jackson and his popularity?

Inspired by a comment I made in another thread, I decided that this topic could merit its own thread. When discussing Andrew Jackson's surprising victory at New Orleans, Wikipedia includes an interesting passage... At issue here was the fact that the United States and the United Kingdom had...

In 1816, General Andrew Jackson invaded the territory of Spanish Florida in order to subdue the Seminole Native American tribe which had had many skirmishes with the farmers of neighboring Georgia. In our timeline, this led to Spain ceding the territory of Florida to the US at the treaty of...

The Stars Fly High Time is never-ending, our universe is but one of many. Outside the restraints of our known Galaxy is multiple realities connected together in one great blanket of existence. Across this great blanket of reality lays infinite possibilities. Every question that could ever be...

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, while probably the most infamous assassination attempt on a president atleast until JFK, was not the first attempt on a president's life. For those that may not be aware, Andrew Jackson was nearly gunned down in 1835 by Richard Lawrence outside of the...

The War of 1812 is really a small event within world history, being most remembered in the US and (maybe) Canada. As such, it doesn't have too many ramifications for world history, aside for potential Canadian nationalism issues. Yet, an interesting case, in my opinion, to think about, is the...

With a POD after the Louisiana Purchase, make John Randolph of Roanoke President of the United States

How could (or could it) the Nullification crisis have led to Civil War? And what would have been the most likely result? Was this feasible at all?

This is based off a previous thread where I asked what would happen if William Crawford didn't have a stroke before the 1824 election: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-william-h-crawford-doesnt-have-a-stroke.469054/ The consensus was that Crawford would steal enough votes from...

Despite its name the War of 1812 lasted three years, from 1812 to 1815. While the US saw its capital burned and the invasion of Canada failed, America didn't technically lose the war and the peace was negotiated on favorable terms. At the same time the US didn't decisively win either. So how...

On May 30th, 1806, future POTUS Andrew Jackson dueled a lawyer named Charles Dickinson in a dispute over a horse race. Jackson took the risk of letting Dickinson shoot first, hoping his quickness would hurt his aim. Turns out it didn't hurt it that much, since Dickinson's bullet hit Jackson mere...

Before 1968, it wasn't uncommon for presidential candidates to be nominated a second time after losing the general election: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and Richard Nixon were all elected President after having previously failed to do so. (FDR had...

In OTL William H. Crawford ran for President in 1824, against John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Henry Clay. Crawford ended up third in the electoral college. Some historians think that his chances at becoming President were hurt when he suffered a stroke in 1823, brought on by some...

Prologue: Not a European War. 9th of July, 1755 --- " But [General Braddock] had too much self-confidence, too high an opinion of the validity of regular troops, and too mean a one of both Americans and Indians." -Benjamin Franklin, "A Vain Remonstrance with General Braddock"* The almost fifty...

What if tensions between Britain and the US had been resolved diplomatically, and there had been no war of 1812?

Let's say that Henry Clay decided not to run in 1824 and instead threw his support behind John Quincy Adams at the beginning of the campaign, they had similar platforms. If we assume that Adams received all of Clay's electoral votes, he'd have a total of 121 electoral votes (this isn't taking...

This is my first real Alternate History on this site. Please feel free to critique this, let me know what I could fix, and if you like this novel. POD: Napoleon and Tsar Alexander work together to defeat England in India and the British sue for Peace, and Russia is defeated, all in 1812...

My scenario, Andrew Jackson is successfully shot in 1835 by Richard Lawrence, but reveals his chosen successors of Van Buren and Johnson before his death. Van Buren becomes Acting President (he is never sworn in as president like Tyler) and develops gout, as he did in our timeline when he...