Driven West : Andrew Jackson and the 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...

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Main Author: Langguth, A. J., 1933-2014
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010]
Edition:1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
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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).