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 ...

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 ...

Found Lost Camps of Andrew Jackson and Davey Crockett - Pt 1 is our first video in a series to find camps used during the Creek Indian Wars during 1813 (Considered part of the War of 1812). The ...

Lancaster’s boys and South Pointe’s girls remain No. 1 this week in the Herald’s Power 5 high school basketball rankings. No ...

It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white ...

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, ...

President Trump may think he is President Jackson reincarnated -- but there are lessons in Old Hickory's resistance to ...