In all seriousness teachers who just teach the book version of the War of 1812 tend to miss how impactful it was. That’s why we still use the craziest oxymoron we ever came up with: Jacksonian Democracy. I wish I had a video of some of my lectures about it. I ranted and raved like a madman in front of some profoundly disinterested kids. I did create little brigades of smart kids who ****ing hate Andrew Jackson to this day though. I bet I was the most vitriolic anti Jackson junior high history teacher in the entire state. If they learned one thing for those four weeks it was that I hated that mother****ers guts.
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