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Andrew Jackson: “By persuasion and force they have been made to retire from river to river and from mountain to mountain, until some of…”

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By persuasion and force they have been made to retire from river to river and from mountain to mountain, until some of the tribes have become extinct and others have left but remnants to preserve for a while their once terrible names.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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Jackson describes the forced displacement of Native American tribes due to colonization and expansion.

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