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The evidence that Andrew Jackson thought the earth was flat seems tenuous. One author (James Parton) wrote that another author (Nicholas Trist) reported that a Jackson relative (unnamed) stated, “the General did not believe the World was round.”
Jackson did cancel federal support for the Antarctic expedition that John Quincy Adams had backed. However, as I wrote in this series of postings, Adams supported that expedition after its main proponent had moved away from the hollow-Earth theory, which Adams thought was outlandish.
Jackson wanted to shrink the power and size of the federal government. He didn’t see projects like the Antarctic expedition as a good use of taxpayer funds.
Dec 31, 2024, 3:43:46 AM
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