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

Author

A J Langguth

Call Number

• 973.56 L278 (CEN)

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Edition

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, c2010.

Physical Description

466 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

USC professor of journalism Langguth (Union, 1812) 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.

Contents

• Henry Clay
• Major Ridge
• John Quincy Adams (1825-1827)
• Sequoyah
• John C. Calhoun
• Andrew Jackson
• Theodore Frelinghuysen
• John Marshall (1831-1832)
• Elias Boudinot (1832-1833)
• John Howard Payne
• John Ross
• Martin Van Buren (1836-1837)
• Winfield Scott
• Daniel and Elizabeth Butrick (1838-1839)
• Tahlequah
• William Henry Harrison (1839-1841)
• John Tyler (1841-1844)
• "Manifest destiny" (1845-1852)
• Prologue (1853-1861)
• Stand Watie (1861-1865).