In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

"General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845." The inscription on the marker for the President's beloved wife, Rachel, is far longer and more emotional, a 135-word defense of her honor ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

The Andrew Jackson Foundation—owner and operator of ... Jackson owned 95 enslaved people, and by his death in 1845, he owned 150. “For decades, research into the enslaved community has been ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined the Continental ... where his health declined. On June 8, 1845, at age 78, Jackson died. Explore the life of the president with a short biographical video and ...

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...

Died: June 8, 1845. Economic policy cemented Jackson's legacy as a populist. When South Carolina nullified a federal tariff that displeased the state, Jackson threatened to collect the funds at ...