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80 free Andrew Jackson trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
73 free Andrew Jackson trivia questions with answers. Andrew Jackson is the president Americans argue about most: the orphan who took a British sword to the face at 14, the duelist who carried another man's bullet in his chest for 39 years, the general who won the Battle of New Orleans after the war was technically over, and the president who paid off the national debt, killed the national bank and signed the Indian Removal Act. This quiz covers all of it, from the Waxhaws to the Hermitage. The 80 questions run from easy warm-ups (which bill is he on, what was his nickname) through the Nullification Crisis, the Petticoat affair, the Kitchen Cabinet and the Bank War, to genuinely hard ones about his horse, his parrot, his adopted son and the first bronze statue cast in America. Expect a mix that suits a classroom, a pub-quiz history round or anyone who just watched a documentary and wants to test what stuck. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and shows its confirming sentence once you answer, so you can trust what you learn here even when it is uncomfortable.
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Q 01Andrew Jackson was which number president of the United States?
Seventh
He served two terms, from 1829 to 1837, and was the first president who had not come from Virginia or Massachusetts.
Q 02Which nickname did Jackson earn for marching his volunteers home from Natchez in 1813?
Old Hickory
The other three were real nicknames too, belonging to Zachary Taylor, Winfield Scott and William Henry Harrison.
Q 03The Battle of New Orleans was fought fifteen days after a peace treaty was signed in which European city?
Ghent
News of the signing had not yet crossed the Atlantic, and the treaty did not take effect until it was ratified in February 1815.
Q 04What was the name of Jackson's plantation home near Nashville, where he is buried?
The Hermitage
He bought the property in 1804 after a near-bankruptcy forced him to sell a larger estate, and it grew to about 1,000 acres of cotton land.
Q 05The Waxhaws region, Jackson's 1767 birthplace, straddles the border of which two states?
North and South Carolina
His exact birthplace is unclear; Jackson said he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, but both states still claim him.
Q 06Jackson's parents emigrated to America in 1765 from which province of Ireland?
Ulster
His mother passed a fierce hatred of the British on to her sons, and all three boys served on the Patriot side in the Revolution.
Q 07Jackson's father died about how long before Andrew was born?
Three weeks
His father was just 29. The widow and her three sons moved in with her sister's family, the Crawfords.
Q 08As a British prisoner in 1781, Jackson was slashed with a sword after refusing to do what for an officer?
Polish his boots
The blow left scars on his left hand and head that he carried for the rest of his life; his brother Robert refused too and was struck as well.
Q 09Which disease did Jackson and his brother Robert contract in the British prisoner-of-war camp at Camden?
Smallpox
Robert died two days after the brothers were released in a prisoner exchange; their mother nursed Andrew back to health.
Q 10Jackson was orphaned at what age when his mother died while nursing American prisoners in Charleston?
14
Her death hardened his lifelong hatred of what he associated with the British: aristocracy and political privilege.
Q 11Jackson's first duel, fought in 1788 against fellow lawyer Waightstill Avery, ended how?
Both men fired into the air
Jackson had accused Avery of impugning his character; it was the first of several affairs of honor in his life.
Q 12What was the name of Andrew Jackson's wife, legally married in January 1794 after a scandal over her divorce?
Rachel Donelson
The couple had lived together before the divorce was final, and the 'irregular' marriage was used against Jackson in the 1828 campaign.
Q 13From 1798 to 1804 Jackson sat as a judge on which bench?
Tennessee Superior Court
Q 21Which British general commanded the army of 10,000 at New Orleans and died in the assault?
Edward Pakenham
He was Wellington's brother-in-law; many of his men were veterans of the Napoleonic Wars.
Q 22Under martial law in New Orleans after the battle, Jackson arrested which official for signing a habeas corpus writ?
A U.S. district judge
He also jailed a state legislator who criticized him in print, and ordered all French citizens out of the city within three days.
Q 23What honor did Congress award Jackson in February 1815 for the New Orleans victory?
Congressional Gold Medal
He resigned the bench in 1804 after land speculation on promissory notes nearly bankrupted him.
Q 14Jackson's 1806 duel with Charles Dickinson, which killed Dickinson, began as a row over what?
A forfeited horse race
Dickinson fired first and hit Jackson in the chest, but the bullet shattered against his breastbone; Jackson then took aim and killed him.
Q 15Which former vice president's 1805–06 scheme did Jackson briefly back before helping arrest the plotters?
Aaron Burr
The plotter had stayed with the Jacksons in 1805; when he was tried for treason in 1807, Jackson testified that James Wilkinson was the real culprit.
Q 16Jackson was shot in an 1813 Nashville tavern brawl with which future senator and his brother Jesse?
Thomas Hart Benton
The wound nearly killed him, and he had not fully recovered when he was called out to fight the Creek War weeks later.
Q 17Which March 1814 battle on the Tallapoosa River broke the power of the Red Stick Creeks?
Horseshoe Bend
Jackson's 3,000 men, including Cherokee, Choctaw and allied Creek warriors, overwhelmed a fort of about 1,000 defenders.
Q 18The 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson forced the Creek, allies included, to surrender roughly how much land?
23 million acres
The land makes up much of present-day Alabama and Georgia, and it was demanded even from Creek bands that had fought on Jackson's side.
Q 19To defend New Orleans in 1814, Jackson allied with which Barataria smuggler?
Jean Lafitte
He also raised units of free and enslaved Black men and Creeks, paying non-white volunteers the same as whites, to reach about 5,000 men.
Q 20Roughly how many casualties did Jackson's army suffer at New Orleans in 1815, against over 2,000 British?
71
The British marched into a frontal assault on entrenched Americans and lost their commanding general in barely half an hour.
The victory also let the U.S. ignore a treaty article that would have returned the Creek lands taken at Fort Jackson.
Q 24In the 1818 First Seminole War, Jackson caused an international incident by executing two subjects of which country?
Britain
Robert Ambrister and Alexander Arbuthnot were tried briefly and hanged or shot for aiding the Seminoles; a congressional inquiry later exonerated Jackson.
Q 25Under which 1819 agreement did Spain cede the territory Jackson had invaded?
Adams–Onís Treaty
In exchange the United States assumed its citizens' claims against Spain and gave up its claim to Texas west of the Sabine River.
Q 26In 1821 Jackson served two months as the first territorial governor of which future state?
Florida
The post was compensation for Congress abolishing his generalship after the Panic of 1819; he went home in ill health.
Q 27Jackson, John Overton and a partner used land from the 1818 Chickasaw cession to found which city?
Memphis
The cession itself became known as the Jackson Purchase and covers western Tennessee and Kentucky.
Q 28Whom did the House choose over Jackson for the presidency in 1824?
John Quincy Adams
No candidate had the 131 electoral votes needed, so under the Twelfth Amendment the House picked from the top three finishers.
Q 29Which House Speaker's appointment as Secretary of State in 1825 drew cries of 'corrupt bargain'?
Henry Clay
The Speaker had presided over the House vote and had thrown his support behind Jackson's rival, whom he considered the lesser disaster.
Q 30The coalition Jackson's supporters built after the 1824 election grew into which political organisation?
Democratic Party
Its first national convention, in Baltimore in 1832, nominated Jackson's choice for vice president.