Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks ...
The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history. Nation to Nation looks at Removal’s historic and legal ...
Missouri's place within the Trail of Tears will be discussed during The State Historical Society of Missouri's regular ...
But with the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, Southeastern Indian nations faced enormous pressure to move west. A minority party of Cherokees concluded that their only course was to ...
Nicholas, Tom, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith, and Sam Subramanian. "The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'." Harvard Business School Case 812-079, December 2011. (Revised February 2019.) ...
it's about the fact that he signed the Indian Removal Act, which back in the 1860s, I think, what it did — 1830s, that is to say — during the fall of 1838, I believe, was when they moved all ...
He also feared that gaining Texas would mean a war with Mexico. Van Buren enforced Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of 1830. In a devastating move, the federal government forced the Cherokee Nation to ...