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Inauguration Day, 1829
This painting suggests the crowds that swamped the building now called the White House after Andrew Jackson’s inauguration in March 1829. Jackson took the oath at the East Front of the Capitol, and had some difficulty making it to his new residence. So many people filled the ceremonial rooms that the new President had to be wedged out again with the help of friends.
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This is a petition by Cherokees to be allowed to keep their land in the 1830’s. It is preserved among many other petitions in a metal box at the National Archives in Washington; and this amazing document helps to decode much of the battle over Indian land in the Southeast.
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