Jackson was raised as an isolated frontiersman. He also learned savage territorial supremacy, from growing up on the Carolina Piedmont with Germans, Swiss, and Native Americans. Descended from Jonathan Edwards, Jackson possessed a reckless spirit and flaring temper, even as a youth. To further emphasize these negative traits, he was poorly educated and only interested in warlike activities. Other factors contributed to his irritability, such as "the big itch" (a skin disease he had in youth). Also, he tended to slobber, which made him humiliated and extremely sensitive to criticism. All these childhood
factors added up and left Andrew Jackson as a touchy, hot-tempered man.
Jackson grew from a isolated childhood to a very successful adolescence and adulthood. …
