Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he ...

The Cherokees might even have realized that advantage had it not been for the militia leader they fought under: Andrew Jackson. As a boy in the 1770s, Jackson had listened to stories of Indian ...

All preceding experiments for the improvement of the Indians have failed. It seems now to be an established fact they they can not live in contact with a civilized community and prosper.

No one doubts that Andrew Jackson was imperfect ... it's about the fact that he signed the Indian Removal Act, which back in the 1860s, I think, what it did — 1830s, that is to say — during ...

Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the ... his fight to kill the National Bank, his Indian Removal Bill, his “Kitchen Cabinet” of advisors, and the grooming of his ...

Jackson’s Indian Removal Act facilitated the forced displacement of ... Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed chief executives in history, ...

Americans feared that the British were intending to rouse the Indians of the South and take ... Preliminary actions went well for the British. Andrew Jackson, the American major-general, sent ...