Driven West Andrew Jackson's trail of tears to the Civil War

University of Southern California professor of journalism Langguth maintains America's first civil war occurred during the 1830s when Andrew Jackson expelled Indian tribes from the Deep South and created a bitter North-South conflict. Cherokees "were driven out of Georgia at bayonet point by U.S. Ar...

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Main Author: Langguth, A. J., 1933-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Henry Clay (1825)
  • Major Ridge (1825)
  • John Quincy Adams (1825-27)
  • Sequoyah (1828)
  • John C. Calhoun (1828)
  • Andrew Jackson (1829)
  • Theodore Frelinghuysen (1830)
  • John Marshall (1831-32)
  • Elias Boudinot (1832-34)
  • John Howard Payne (1835)
  • John Ross (1836)
  • Martin Van Buren (1836-37)
  • Winfield Scott (1838)
  • Daniel and Elizabeth Butrick (1838--39)
  • Tahlequah (1839)
  • William Henry Harrison (1839-41)
  • John Tyler (1841-44)
  • "Manifest destiny" (1845-52)
  • Prologue (1853-61)
  • Stand Watie (1861-65).