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Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee ... Jackson's attitude toward Native Americans was paternalistic and patronizing -- he described them as children in need of guidance. and believed the removal ...

Jackson’s Indian Removal Act facilitated the forced displacement of these Native Americans from their tribal lands ... “What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson!... the iron man of his age—the ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three ... with Jackson's support of slavery and his ruthless treatment of Native Americans. Politicians as varied as Hillary Clinton and Sen.

An 1840 article on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Battle of New Orleans opined, “What a wonderful man is Andrew Jackson!... the iron man of his age—the incarnation of American courage.” ...

Closer to home, Jackson recognized the independence of Texas in 1837 and his administration instituted a policy of forced relocation of Native American nations. Although Jackson won more electoral ...

Native Americans had trouble living on the land they had known for generations in the face of widespread westward expansion. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act ...