Jackson looked at the Indian question in terms of military and legal policy , not as a problem due to their race . In 1813 , Jackson adopted and treated as his own son a three-year-old Indian orphan — seeing in him a fellow orphan that was " so much like myself I feel an unusual sympathy for him " . In legal terms , when it became a matter of state sovereignty versus tribal sovereignty he went with the states and forced the Indians to fresh lands with no white rivals in what became known as the Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Jacksonian democracy