Second Annual Message - Andrew Jackson (1830)

Abstract

This document is an excerpt from Andrew's Jackson's Second Annual Message, delivered on December 6, 1830 to Congress. Jackson was the seventh president of the United States and dominated American politics between the 1820s and 1830s. The Jackson government sought to remove the Five Civilized tribes - these are the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole - west of the Mississippi beyond the reach of white settlements.