THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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the outbreak of the Mexican War
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the Cherokee Trail of Tears
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the secession of Southern states
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the spread of slavery across the South
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this letter, Jackson writes to the Cherokee Nation urging them to give up the fight for their homeland. Jackson argues that the Cherokee people will be much better off if they remove to land west of the Mississippi River. He expresses the hope that they will accept the advice that he claims to give them as a friend.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."
Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty set terms for the removal of Cherokees east of the Mississippi River from their land in the Southeast to Indian Territory, part of modern-day Oklahoma. The treaty had been negotiated by a minority party, while the majority of the Cherokee people considered it to be fraudulent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Primary Sources: Andrew Jackson Provided by Project Avalon at Yale. “The Papers of Andrew Jackson is a project to collect and publish Jackson’s entire extant literary record. The project is now producing a series of seventeen volumes that will bring Jackson’s most important papers to the public in easily readable form.