Andrew Jackson’s Message to the Seminoles
My Children: I am sorry to have heard that you have been listening to bad counsel. You know me, and you know that I would …
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson: “The Bank of the United States… Prevent(s)…Political Institutions from Securing the Freedoms of the Citizen”
President Andrew Jackson had Secretary Taney read a statement to the Cabinet that Jackson and Taney had prepared on why the deposits should be removed, …
John C Calhoun’s Fort Hill Address
The idea that states have a constitutional right to nullify or veto acts of Congress gained ground with many Americans in the 1820s. One of …
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
“Removal” of the Native people east of the Mississippi to lands in the west as a policy of the United States originated with Thomas Jefferson, …
The 1828 US Presidential Election
The United States in the 19th century saw major changes take hold on the political, social, industrial, and electoral level. In 1804, the Twelfth Amendment …
John Quincy Adams Became President in a Bitterly Contested U.S. Election and Must be Resolved by the House of Representatives
This was the first election decided by the House of Representatives after the passage of the Twelfth Amendment, which had been ratified in the wake …