Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee ... and only a small number of Creeks, Cherokee and Choctaws actually moved to the new lands. In 1823 the Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that ...

Despite the Cherokee people’s efforts, the Senate ratified the treaty on March 1, 1836, by a single vote, and President Andrew Jackson signed it into law. The Cherokee negotiators who signed the ...

The Cherokee nation was one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" in the southeast, and Andrew Jackson planned their removal along with all other tribes existing east of the Mississippi River.

Zuckerberg said he liked the late President Andrew Jackson because he "got stuff done," a former Facebook executive wrote in her memoir.

In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted ... course of his successor Martin Van Buren’s presidency. Legacy Andrew Jackson is of the ...

In high school, when we studied the separation of powers, I asked my civics teacher: "What happens if the executive branch ...

No one doubts that Andrew Jackson was imperfect ... was when they moved all those Cherokee Indians, they had that forced march, thousands died. It was the so-called Trail of Tears.

Principal Chief John Ross (Cherokee, 1790–1866), appearing before ... Signed by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, the Removal Act, gave the president the legal authority to remove ...

How do you deal with an American president who does not obey the US constitution? The question has arisen because the recent ...

Early in the life of the new republic it was posed by the election to the presidency in 1828 of Andrew ... but the Cherokee removal was the cruellest I ever knew.” Jackson was exultant, taunting ...