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Tag: Chickasaws

  • The Extermination of Native Americans

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    Trail of Tears. By: Max D. Stanley.

    Under President Andrew Jackson, and his successor President Martin Van Buren, there was mass removal of Native Americans westward across America.

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  • Jackson’s Removal of Native Americans

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    Depiction of the Removal of Native Americans.

    In the first year of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, the removal of Native Americans from their lands became a top priority.

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  • The Genesis of King Cotton

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    Cotton Pickers. By: William Aiken Walker.

    Following the War of 1812, Americans had at their disposal a new 14 million acres that General Andrew Jackson acquired from the Creek tribe in the South. Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: Transformation of America, 1815-1848, 125. The expansion of territory, particularly in the South, would have massive ramifications in the coming decades.

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