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 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is staying at the Blair House, the historic guest residence of U.S. Presidents, that has long ...

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, ...

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

The portrait of President Andrew Jackson has recently made a comeback in the Oval Office. “Old Hickory” –- Jackson’s nickname –- has long been a favorite of President Donald Trump. Photo by Wikimedia ...

The portrait of Jackson, dubbed by Indigenous Americans as the “Indian Killer” over his signing of the Indian Removal Act, stirred controversy in 2017 when it appeared in the backdrop as Trump ...