Tony Guzzi

Jackson was the next great war hero after George Washington. People really felt like he had saved the country, they put his image on everything from plates to pitchers to coins to you-name-it.

The legacy of the battle is that Americans felt Jackson had saved them from the British. That launched the U.S. into an era of national pride, the big, important thing is it really changed the way Americans felt about their country. They were more confident about the permanency of the U.S., which was only a few decades old.