Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the most portrayed chief executives in the ... including his promise to cleanse the government of corruption, his fight to kill the National Bank, his Indian Removal Bill, ...

The jail cell was cold, damp and echoey. But sleeping in the old prison buildings of Alcatraz Island was the first time Robert Free Galvan had a sense of true liberty. In 1969, Galvan and other ...

They remind us that our politics have always been messy and sometimes bloody. Do not weep for Andrew Jackson. He had a good run on the money.

Jackson threatened to collect the funds at gunpoint. The state backed down. When Whigs in Congress brought up a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States -- a private institution that ...

Legacy In the genre of presidential portraiture, Andrew Jackson has been one of the most portrayed ... his fight to kill the National Bank, his Indian Removal Bill, his “Kitchen Cabinet” of advisors, ...

Madison also noted that the Constitution conferred no power to establish a national bank ... of this Second Bank of the United States expired under President Andrew Jackson, another Bank foe ...

National Portrait Gallery ... 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 violence ...