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5 days ago · Following his election as president in 1828, Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) was in a position to carry out a policy he had long advocated: removal of the remaining Native Americans in the United States to territories west of the Mississippi.
1 day ago · As the posting linked above notes, a small journal that Alexander Noble kept in 1762-1773 is extant and is now held by the South Caroliniana Library of the University of South Carolina at Columbia.
5 days ago · President Andrew Jackson obliged in 1835, declaring in the following message to Congress that the U.S. government would relocate and resettle several native tribes.
1 day ago · This post is from Dr. Stuart Ellis-Gorman. Here, Dr. Ellis-Gorman describes the progress of the We Intend To Move On Your Works project of playing through and discussing American Civil War games that he and Pierre Vagneur-Jones have been conducting, which comes with a particular focus of looking at the intersection of the Lost Cause movement and wargaming.
3 days ago · The 1832 United States presidential election was the 12th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 2 to Wednesday, December 5, 1832. Incumbent president Andrew Jackson, candidate of the Democratic Party, defeated Henry Clay, candidate of the National Republican Party . The election saw the first use of the presidential ...
4 days ago · Built in the early 19th century, the house was the residence of Daniel Smith Donelson, a significant figure in Tennessee’s history. Donelson, born in 1801, was the nephew of President Andrew Jackson and the son of Mary Donelson and Samuel Donelson. His lineage tied him to some of the most influential families of early America.
5 days ago · Selocta Chinnabby (Shelocta) was a Muscogee chief who appealed to Andrew Jackson to reduce the demands for Creek lands at the signing of the Treaty of Fort Jackson. After the War of 1812, some Muscogee leaders such as William McIntosh and Chief Shelocta signed treaties that ceded more land to Georgia.
