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Battle of Horseshoe Bend
March 27, 1814, US Army and Tennessee militia troops under General Andrew Jackson defeated 1000 warriors from the Creek confederation, ending the Creek War of 1812–1814. Stephens reported that “we yesterday recieved intelagence that the Creek War is finally at an End. our troops are now Geting their discharges.” With his letter, he included a map illustrating the positions of the Indians and the US forces at Horseshoe Bend. He also anticipated the terms of the treaty -
Battle of New orleans
Unaware of a peace treaty signed two weeks earlier, General Andrew Jackson stopped a British attack at the Battle of New Orleans. British forces suffered 2,036 casualties; US forces suffered eight men killed and thirteen wounded. -
Death of Rachel Donelson Jackson
Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson (born June 15, 1767, near Pittsylvania county, Virginia [U.S.]died December 22, 1828, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. wife of U.S. Army general and president-elect Andrew Jackson, who became the seventh president of the United States (1829–37). She died less than three months before his inauguration -
Inauguration of President Jackson
Andrew Jackson's inauguration was perhaps one of the purest moments of American democracy. As Jackson had run for president as a candidate for the ordinary man, ordinary men from across the country traveled to Washington to see their candidate elected president. They crowded the capital unlike any inauguration before. Fifteen thousand watched as Jackson received the oath of office -
Jefferson Day Dinner
Jackson revealed his position at a Jefferson Day dinner in April 1830. Fixing his eyes on Vice President Calhoun, the President showed his sentiments with the toast: "Our Union: It must be preserved." Calhoun responded to Jackson's challenge and offered the next toast: "The Union, next to our liberty -
Jackson Signs Indian Removal Act
On May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy during the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839 -
Jackson Vetoes Bank Bill
The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816 for a term of 20 years. The time limitation reflected the concerns of many in Congress about the concentration of financial power in a private corporation. The Bank of the United States was a depository for federal funds and paid national debts, but it was answerable only to its directors and stockholders and not to the electorate -
Jackson Issues Nullification Proclamation
On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to a federal law. Jackson's proclamation was written in response to issued by a South Carolina convention that declared that the bad acts of 1828 and 1832 "are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States -
Congress Passes the Force Bill
The 1833 Force Bill extended executive power and was made to deal with the actions of the South Carolina legislature who had passed an Ordinance of Nullification declaring the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the state borders of South Carolina -
Start of the Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears was named as such by the Cherokee Indians who survived the forced march west from their native lands throughout Georgia and North Carolina. Hostility toward the Cherokees was not a foreign concept for the native people of Georgia. The Cherokees were led by the chief called The Ridge, who allied the Cherokees with Andrew Jackson in 1814 at Horseshoe Bend.
