Upon Andrew Jackson’s ... By the time of his death in 1845, Jackson owned 150 enslaved people and had expanded The Hermitage to a vast 1,000 acres. He and his family owned more than 300 enslaved ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old ... Soon after the death of his brother, Jackson’s mother died of cholera and Jackson was orphaned at the age of 14. The deaths of his family members led to his ...

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 ...