Download Driven West: Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War AudioBook Free
By the acclaimed writer of the classic Patriots and Union 1812, this major work of narrative history portrays four of the most turbulent decades in the expansion of the American country. After the Battle of 1812, Presidents Monroe, Jackson, Truck Buren, and Polk led the united states to its Express Destiny over the continent, but the pushes and hostility unleashed by that enlargement led inexorably to Civil Battle. As chief executive, Andrew Jackson decreed that the Indians of Georgia be forcibly removed to make way for the exploding white population. His policy set off angry argument in the Senate among such giants as Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, and protests from freelance writers in the north like Ralph Waldo Emerson, who symbolized the growing abolitionist motion. Southern slave owners understood that those protests would not stop with defending a few Indian tribes.
