Archaeologists have found 28 graves of people who were enslaved by Andrew Jackson at his Hermitage ... more than 300 people were enslaved by the Jackson family. "It is historically significant ...

There was Andrew Jackson Jr., a nephew and his adopted son ... To describe the informal group of friends, family members and advisers whom they believed maintained too great an influence over ...

The deaths of his family members led to his lifelong distrust of Britain ... The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; the latter won, in part, because of ...

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina... Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, and his populist appeal lay in his message of inclusion against what he characterized ...