Army of Tennessee

becomes governor of Tennessee and just three short years later earned a seat as a U.S. senator in 1857. At the beginning of Andrew’s new journey, he introduces the Homestead Bill to the U.S. senate in 1857. On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln becomes the sixteenth president of the United Sates. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Andrew decides to remain loyal to the Union and keeps his seat as a U.S. senate. It was not until 1862 when Andrew is appointed military governor of Tennessee that he…

In May 1814 he became Major General of the army. On January 8, 1815, he overpowered the British in New Orleans and was praised as a hero. Jackson also served in the 1st Seminole War (1817-19) when he defeated the Spanish Governor in Florida. Andrew Jackson was a lawyer in North Carolina and then went on to Tennessee to establish a different life style. In 1796, he assisted at the convention that created the Tennessee Constitution. He was elected in 1797 as Tennessee's first US Representative…

American history cannot be complete without the mention of slavery that caused much suffering to African Americans. The war of 1812 that came shortly after America’s ndependence was another milestone in American history that cannot be forgotten (Horsman). The one time president of the United States, Andrew Jackson was adversely mentioned in the slave history because of his positive contribution towards the freeing of the American slaves during his tenure as the president. America’s early history…

The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to a piece of land that was designated as Native Territory. In 1803 the Indian Removal Act was passed leading to the removal of the Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Seminoles, and Cherokees were relocated off their land. The trek was over 1,000 miles long and thousands of people died while being transported. Before the Indian Removal Act, the tribes were…

“In the beginning of the 1830’s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia. This land was passed down generations to generations.” (History) The idea of the Indians owning so much land, angered white settlers very much. President Andrew Jackson, had to do something about this issue. To the white settlers, Indians were uncivilized, unfamiliar, and alien people. They hated the fact of the Indians occupying so…

Andrew Jackson was an important figure in American history. Andrew Jackson went through many struggles including the British army and his family’s poverty in his early life. After working very hard Andrew Jackson finally reached his goal of becoming president. It all started when Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson. Sadly his dad died three weeks before he was born. He was only twenty- nine years old. This is how Andrew Jackson…

states, including Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. This vast piece of land was to commemorate the death of approximately 4000 Native American lives. In the early 1830’s, it had only been a few decades since America had been founded.The white settlers who were new to the land began to explore it with intent to claim it as their own territory. Tens of thousands of Native Americans lived on millions of acres of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida land that…

seizing. Polk tried to buy the territories from Mexico, but Mexico refused. Polk then gave orders to Taylor to move his army to Rio Grande. The Mexican troops attacked a unit of American troops, and war was declared by Congress on May 13, 1846. After Taylor left the Mexicans evacuate without fighting back, Polk changed his defensive. Colonel Stephen W. Kearny was in charge of a small army and captured New Mexico and…

(hereinafter referred to as McCleary) was born in 1842. He married Corlissa Brown McCleary and together they had two children, Hallie McCleary and Baby Boy McCleary. McCleary fought in the Civil War for the United States. He served as a captain in the Union Army. He received the Congressional Medal of Honor as a First Lieutenant for capturing the flag of the Fourth Florida Infantry while in advance of his lines. He is considered a Civil War hero by the people of Clyde. McCleary died on June 23,…

the national stage and enacted his policies in a nation. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1776, on the border of North and South Carolina. He later moved to the Nashville region of Tennessee where he became a wealthy landowner from the money he made from a private law practice. In 1796, Jackson was elected Tennessee 's first representative in the United States House of Representatives. The following year, he was elected to the United States Senate, but then resigned after serving only eight…