Andrew Jackson ... But the southeastern nations resisted, and Jackson forced them to leave. Jackson's attitude toward Native Americans was paternalistic and patronizing -- he described them ...

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

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 ...