“Which party was it that did drive the Cherokees from their homes? Anyone?”
Hmmm, Let’s see - The Trail of Tears occurred in 1838/1839. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 . . . It couldn’t have been the Republicans.
Exactly. Indian Removal was the policy promoted by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Democrats. Started in the late twenties with the rise of Jackson and culminated in the Trail of Tears in the late thirties.