In what is today known as the Trail of Tears, members of the Cherokee Nation were rounded up and transplanted westward by military force in 1838 under Jackson’s successor Martin Van Buren. Legacy In ...

Andrew Jackson's tombstone is etched with three simple words and two dates: "General Andrew Jackson, March 15, 1767 -- June 8, 1845 ... incorporating the images of ancient Greece that symbolized ...

At age 13, Andrew Jackson joined ... After the White House, Jackson returned to the Hermitage, his Tennessee plantation, where his health declined. On June 8, 1845, at age 78, Jackson died.

Andrew, then thirteen years old, joined the local militia as a patriot courier. At fifteen years of age, Jackson and his other brother, Robert, were captured by the British in 1781. Jackson’s face was ...