A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one of ...

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 ...

It would also have been deemed irresponsible to refund the money to the states or the people ... Major Acts The only major piece of legislation passed during Jackson’s eight years as president was the ...

Of its climate, fertility, and capacity to support an Indian population the representations are highly favorable. To these districts the Indians are removed at the expense of the United States ...

No one doubts that Andrew ... Jackson, Brian, and he's been a target in that park for a very long time, in addition to owning slaves, you know, it's about the fact that he signed the Indian ...

Just a month later, he would have to confront Andrew Jackson directly. Jackson had been serving as a federal Indian commissioner ... Ross suggested he use the money to buy off the Georgia settlers.

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... presaging its later actions that led to the Civil War. Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act; thousands of Cherokees died on the Trail of ...

Andrew Jackson was the first president to defy the US supreme court. The question is whether Donald Trump will take a leaf ...