A Native American Timeline-- Part 4: Sacagawea, Lewis & Clark, War of 1812 and the Indian Removal Act

**  NOVEMBER 2, 1804:  Sacagawea, six months pregnant,  meets explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their exploration of the territory of the Louisiana Purchase.  The explorers realize her value as a translator.

**  APRIL 7, 1805:  Sacagawea, along with her baby and husband Toussaint Charbonneau, join Lewis and Clark on their expedition.

**  NOVEMBER 1811:    U.S. forces attack War Chief Tecumseh and his younger brother Lalawwethika.  Their community at the juncture of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers is destroyed.

**  JUNE 18, 1812:  President James Madison signs a declaration of war against the British, beginning the War of 1812.  The war was fought between the the United States and the British, Canadians and their Indian allies.  A huge issue for the Indians is American territorial expansion.

**  MARCH 27, 184:  Andrew Jackson and his American force and Indian allies attack Creek Indians opposing American expansion into their land at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.  The Creeks lost and ceded more than twenty million acres of land to the United States.

**  MAY 28, 1830:  President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which gives them land west of the Mississippi River in exchange for land that is taken from them east of the river.

--DaCoot

Ten Facts About President Andrew Jackson- Part 1: Self-Taught Lawyer and Military Leader

From the March 14, 2014, National Constitution Center "10 birthday facts about President Andrew Jackson."  His birthday is March 15, born either in North Carolina or South Carolina on March 15, 1767.

1.  He was a Revolutionary War POW.  His mother and two brothers did not survive the war.

2.  Jackson, like Lincoln, was a self-taught frontier lawyer.

3.  Served in Congress at a young age, Tennessee's first Congressman in 1796.  Became a Senator nine months later but quit seven months after that and returned to Tennessee.

4.  Made money in the cotton business and owned slaves.  He bought Hermitage plantation in 1804 and owned nine slaves.  When he became president, he owned more than 100.

5.  Self-taught military leader.  Became Tennessee's militia leader in 1802.  His victory in the 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend led to a commission in the U.S. Army where he defeated the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

--Cooter