Jacksonland : President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

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Jacksonland : President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

Title remainder

President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

Statement of responsibility

Steve Inskeep

Title variation

President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a great American land grab

Creator

• Inskeep, Steve
• trueInskeep, Steve

Author

• Inskeep, Steve

Subject

• trueCherokee Indians
• trueCherokee Indians -- History -- 19th century
• trueCreek Indians
• trueCreek War, 1813-1814
• Five Civilized Tribes -- Government relations
• trueGovernment relations with indigenous peoples
• trueHistory writing -- United States -- Native Americans
• trueHistory writing -- United States -- Presidency -- 19th century
• trueHistory writing -- Wars and conflicts | American Indian Wars
• trueIndian Removal, 1813-1903
• trueIndians of North America -- Alabama -- History
• Authors -- Indiana
• Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Relations with Cherokee Indians
• trueJackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 -- Relations with Indians
• Ross, John, 1790-1866
• trueRoss, John, 1790-1866
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1812-1815
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
• trueUnited States -- Politics and government -- 1829-1837
• trueUnited States -- Race relations
• true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
• Indians of North America -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

• Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is a half-forgotten figure: John Ross--a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat--who used the United States' own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson. Representing one of the Five Civilized Tribes who had adopted the ways of white settlers--cultivating farms, publishing a newspaper in their own language, and sending children to school--Ross championed the tribes' cause all the way to the Supreme Court. He gained allies like Senator Henry Clay, Chief Justice John Marshall, and even Davy Crockett. In a fight that seems at once distant and familiar, Ross and his allies made their case in the media, committed civil disobedience, and benefited from the first mass political action by American women. At stake in this struggle was the land of the Five Civilized Tribes. In shocking detail, Jacksonland reveals how Jackson, as a general, extracted immense wealth from his own armies' conquest of native lands. Later, as president, Jackson set in motion the seizure of tens of millions of acres in today's Deep South. This is the story of America at a moment of transition, when the fate of states and nations was decided by the actions of two heroic yet tragically opposed men.--From publisher description
• A renowned journalist and cohost of NPR's Morning Edition presents a thrilling narrative history of President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--two heroic yet tragically opposed men whose actions decided the fate of states and Indian nations in America at a moment of transition

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Tone

• trueImpartial

Writing style

• trueEngaging
• trueRichly detailed

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Dewey number

973.56

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E382

LC item number

.I57 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult