The Reign of Andrew Jackson: A Chronicle of the Frontier in Politics. Frederic Austin Ogg

      Published by Good Press, 2020

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       JACKSON THE FRONTIERSMAN

       CHAPTER II

       THE CREEK WAR AND THE VICTORY OF NEW ORLEANS

       CHAPTER III

       THE “CONQUEST” OF FLORIDA

       CHAPTER IV

       THE DEATH OF “KING CAUCUS”

       CHAPTER V

       THE DEMOCRATIC TRIUMPH

       CHAPTER VI

       THE “REIGN” BEGINS

       CHAPTER VII

       THE WEBSTER-HAYNE DEBATE

       CHAPTER VIII

       TARIFF AND NULLIFICATION

       CHAPTER IX

       THE WAR ON THE UNITED STATES BANK

       CHAPTER X

       THE REMOVAL OF THE SOUTHERN INDIANS

       CHAPTER XI

       THE JACKSONIAN SUCCESSION

       BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

       INDEX

       A

       B

       C

       D

       E

       F

       G

       H

       I

       J

       K

       L

       M

       N

       O

       P

       R

       S

       T

       U

       V

       W

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CHAPTER I

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JACKSON THE FRONTIERSMAN

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      Among the thousands of stout-hearted British subjects who decided to try their fortune in the Western World after the signing of the Peace of Paris in 1763 was one Andrew Jackson, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian of the tenant class, sprung from a family long resident in or near the quaint town of Carrickfergus, on the northern coast of Ireland, close by the newer and more progressive city of Belfast.

      With Jackson went his wife and two infant sons, a brother-in-law, and two neighbors with their families, who thus made up a typical eighteenth-century emigrant group. Arrived at Charleston, the travelers fitted themselves out for an overland journey, awaited a stretch of favorable weather, and set off for the Waxhaw settlement, one hundred and eighty miles to the northwest, where numbers of their kinsmen and countrymen