and Andrew Jackson planned their removal along with all other tribes existing east of the Mississippi River. Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to ...
Even before he was elected President, Andrew Jackson had been instrumental in forcing Native Americans out of the South. Once in office, he continued this policy at an accelerated pace.
On January 30, 1835, unemployed house painter Richard Lawrence tried to change the course of history with an attempt to ...
Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...
President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...