A Nation Rising (26 page)

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In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles
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Paddison, Joshua, ed.
A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday, 1995.

Page, Jake.
In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000 Year History of American Indians
. New York: Free Press, 2003.

Price, Richard, ed.
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
. 3rd ed. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Quarles, Benjamin.
The Negro in the Making of America.
New York: Macmillan, 1987.

Rediker, Marcus.
The Slave Ship: A Human History.
New York: Viking, 2007.

Remini, Robert V.
Andrew Jackson
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999.

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Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
. New York: Viking, 2001.

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The House: The History of the House of Representatives
. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006.

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The Life of Andrew Jackson.
New York: Harper and Row, 1988. (Condensation of the author's three-volume biography of Jackson.)

Reynolds, David S.
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
. New York: Knopf, 2005.

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Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson
. New York: Harper-Collins, 2008.

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Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography
. New York: Vintage, 1996.

Richards, Rand.
Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide.
San Francisco, Calif.: Heritage House, 2007.

Richter, Daniel K.
Facing East from Indian Country
. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Roberts, Cokie.
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

Rodriguez, Junius P., ed.
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2006.

Rogow, Arnold A.
A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Sides, Hampton.
Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
. New York: Doubleday, 2006.

Silverman, Kenneth.
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse.
Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo, 2003.

Smith, Jean Edward.
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation.
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Stampp, Kenneth M.
The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South
. New York: Vintage, 1984.

Stannard, David E.
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Stone, Ilene, and Suzanna M. Grenz.
Jessie Benton Frémont: Missouri's Trailblazer.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.
Democracy in America
. Trans. George Lawrence. New York: Perennial, 1988.

Utley, Robert M., and Wilcomb E. Washburn.
Indian Wars.
Boston, Mass.: Mariner, 2002.

Weber, David J.
The Spanish Frontier in North America.
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Weisberger, Bernard A.
America Afire: Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election
. New York: Morrow, 2000.

Wheelan, Joseph.
Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary
. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005.

Wilentz, Sean.
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
. New York: Norton, 2005.

Wills, Garry.
James Madison.
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Witham, Larry.
A City upon a Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History
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Zacks, Richard.
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
. New York: Hyperion, 2005.

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Abolitionism, 111, 113, 124, 195–96.
See also
Douglass, Frederick

Amistad
slave mutiny and, 126

censorship laws against, 166

Congressional “gag rule,” 140–41

Frémont and, 212, 252

John Brown's insurrection, 166

Liberty Party, 182

newspapers, 140, 181, 194–95

pro-slavery violence, 181, 195, 196

Abraham (Black Seminole), 168–69

Adams, Henry, 59

Adams, John, 3, 16, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 50, 52, 55, 58, 86, 111, 134, 200

Adams, John Quincy, 110, 126

African Americans, xv, 95.
See also
Slavery

alliances with Native Americans, 102, 142, 166–69

in Florida, 101–3, 105, 166–69

in Fort Mims massacre, 71

homes burned in Philadelphia, 195

population in U.S., 1810, 65

prohibition on literacy, 134, 136

repatriation to Africa and, 109, 110

Second Seminole War and, 167

Alabama, 69, 81, 91, 109

Alaska, 217, 234

Alexander Hamilton
(Chernow), 44

Alien Act of 1798, 200

Allen, Ethan, 169

Alston, Joseph, 15, 15n, 50, 57

Alston, Theodosia Burr, 9, 15n, 34–35, 58, 61

Ambrister, Robert, 102–3

American Anti-Slavery Society, 195–96, 249

American Colonization Society, 109, 110, 120

American Lion
(Meacham), xx, 78, 159, 175

American West, xx–xxi, 65, 156.
See also
California

annexation of New Mexico, 218

calls for expansion into, 208

exploration of, 218 221, 239–40

fight for California, 177, 182, 218, 244, 245

trails to, 177

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 218

Amistad
mutiny, 112, 122, 125–27

Anderson, Fred, 100

Anti-Masonic Party, 111

Anti-Slavery Society, 166

Arbuthnot, Alexander, 102–3

Arkansas, 111

Arnold, Benedict, xix, 23n, 26–27, 30, 32

Arnold, Peggy Shippen, 23n

Ashley, Robert, 9

Astor, John Jacob, 47

Aurora
newspaper, 38

Austin, Moses, 217

Austin, Stephen, 217

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk
(Monk), 183, 205

 

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 38

Bahamas, 120, 139

Bailey, Dixon, 74, 75

Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 224–25

Bank of New York, 40

Bank of the Manhattan Co., 39–40

Bank of the United States, 156

Baptist Church, 181

Baton Rouge, 65

Battle of Bunker Hill, 31, 245

Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, 71, 85

Battle of Harlem Heights, 31

Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 66, 96–97, 104

Battle of New Orleans, 66, 77

Battle of Quebec, 26–29, 48

Battle of Stono Ferry, 79

Battle of Thames, 85

Battle of Tippecanoe, 66, 84

Bayard, James A., 42

Beasley, David, 72, 73

Beauregard, P. T., 250

Beecher, Lyman, 207–8

Benton, Elizabeth, 239

Benton, Jesse, 92

Benton, Thomas Hart, 91–92, 226, 235n, 236–237, 239, 246

Berlin, Ira, 113, 138

Bible Riots, xxii, 181, 185–94, 209, 212

Birney, James, 181, 182

“Birther” movement, xxiii, 212–13

Black Hawk, 158, 158n

Blennerhassett, Harmon, 55, 57

Boone, Daniel, 27

Borneman, Walter, 86

Boston, 197–98

Brock, Isaac, 85

Brown, John, 166

Buchanan, James, 213, 252

Burr, Aaron, xviii, 7–61

acquittal of, 56

aftermath of trial, 57–61

Andrew Jackson and, xx, 50–51, 104–5

Bank of the Manhattan Co., 39–40

Benedict Arnold and, xix

burial of, 59

capture of, 7–17, 52, 101

daughter and, 34–35, 58

dislike of, by Hamilton, 5, 38

duel and death of Hamilton, xviii, 4, 10, 12–13, 43–45

expedition against Spanish territory, 47–51, 89, 104

family and early years, 18–26

farewell speech, 46

Gen. Montgomery and, 28–29

George Washington and, 30, 31–32, 39

impeachment trial of Chase, 45–46

James Madison and, 25, 36–37, 40

James Wilkinson and, 48–50, 54–55

marriages, 33–34, 37, 58–59

Martin Van Buren and, 60–61, 173

murder indictment, 45

political career, 35–46

presidential run, 16–17, 40–41, 134

presidential vendettas, xix, 5, 59

press and, 38

Richmond Hill house, 30, 35, 47

smearing of, 30, 42, 43, 60–61

supporters and admirers, 12–13, 14

Thomas Jefferson and, 7, 13, 16–17, 36, 40, 42–43, 46–47, 51

treason charge and trial, xviii–xix, 4, 24, 51, 52–57

as war hero, 13, 26–33

Burr, Aaron (Senior), 18, 21–22

Burr, Esther Edwards, 18, 22

Burr, Sarah “Sally,” 22–23, 25

Burr, Theodosia, 33–34

Burstein, Andrew, xxv, 51, 105

Bury the Chains
(Hochschild), 130

Bush, George W., xix, 60, 159

 

Cadwalader, John, 188, 190, 190n, 193

Calhoun, John C., 89

California, 230–31

American expansionism and, 177, 218, 234, 244–45

Bear Flag Revolt, 182, 244, 245

gold rush of 1849, xvii, 217, 219, 221, 224, 248–49

Manifest Destiny and, 241

Mexican control of, 241

mission system, 231–34

Native Americans, 232–34, 233n

population growth, 248

routes to, xviii, 223–28

Russian settlers, 217, 234

statehood, xvii, xxi, 219

Sutter's Fort, 217, 234–35

Callender, James, 38, 45, 86–87

Calloway, Colin G., 67, 83

Carroll, Anna Ella, 210–11

Carroll, William, 92

Carson, Kit, 239, 241, 244–45, 246

Cass, Lewis, 219

Catlin, George, 172

Cayton, Andrew, 100

Channing, William Ellery, 203

Chase, Samuel, 45–46, 52

Chernow, Ron, 11, 44

Cherokee Nation
v.
State of Georgia
, 161

Cherokees, 99, 159–61

“Trail of Tears,” 145, 157, 161

Chickasaw, 81, 159

Choctaw, 81, 93, 102, 159, 160

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 202, 203

Civil War, xvi, xxi

attack on Fort Sumter, 250

Frémont-Lincoln disagreement, 252–53

North-South leadership, 250

Clark, Dennis, 187

Clay, Henry, 51, 89, 110, 182, 242

Collier, James and Christopher, 53

Compromise of 1850, 219

Cooper, James Fenimore, xvi

Creek Indians

“accommodationists,” 84

as American allies, 101–2

Andrew Jackson and, 67, 93–99, 169

assimilation of, 70–71, 81–82, 159

Battle of Burnt Corn Creek, 71, 85

Battle of Horseshoe Bend, 66, 96–97

Battle of Talladega, 94

as British allies, 81, 85, 100

Chief Far-Off Warrior, 73

confiscation of land and forced removal, 81, 99, 160

Fort Mims massacre, xxi, 66, 70–76

leaders with Scots heritage, 80, 157

Muskogee, 70, 81

Red Sticks, 70, 73, 74, 75, 85, 93, 96–97, 170

Tecumseh and, 82–83

Treaty of Fort Jackson, 67, 99

Wars, 76–77, 84, 94, 96–99, 169

Weatherford and, xviii, xxi, 74–75, 80

Creole
mutiny, 112, 115–20, 126, 139–40

Crockett, David, 91, 94

Cuba, 124, 125

 

Dade, Francis, xviii, xxii, 149–53

Dade's Massacre, 145, 149–55, 169

Dana, Richard Henry, 221, 234

Davis, Jefferson, 158n

Day, Emiline, 226–27

Dayton, Jonathan, 24, 39, 50

Death of Montgomery at Quebec, The
(Trumbull painting), 29

Decision in Philadelphia
(Collier), 53

Declaration of Independence, 25, 30

death of Jefferson and Adams, 111

“Jubilee” celebration, xv–xvi, 58

signers, xiv, 45

Democracy in America
(Tocqueville), 160, 181

Democratic Party, 210, 213, 221

Denmark Vesey's rebellion, 110

Denton, Sally, 238

Deslondes, Charles, 113, 137–38

De Soto, Hernando, 150

Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 132, 133

Detroit, 85

Diamond, Jared M., 156

Dickinson, Charles, 65, 92–93

Dickinson, Jonathan, 21

Disease

“brain fever,” 229

brought by Europeans, 233

cholera, 79, 160, 186, 191

smallpox, 21, 22, 27, 122

typhus (“Irish disease”), 187

yellow fever, 33, 130

Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 212

Donner Party, 228

Donohoe, Father Michael, 190

Douglass, Frederick, 139

The Heroic Slave
, 119–20, 139

The Narrative of the Life of
, 182

“Dream of Our Fathers, The,” xiv–xxiii

Duel
(Fleming), 44–45

Dueling

Benton-Carroll, 92

Benton-Lucas, 236–37

code duello, 43

death of Hamilton's son and, 44

Hamilton-Burr, xviii, 4, 10, 12–13, 43–45

Jackson-Dickinson, 65, 92

Dwight, Timothy, 22n, 208

 

Edwards, Jonathan, 18, 20–21, 22, 22n, 25, 208

Edwards, Sarah, 22

Edwards, Timothy, 23, 23n

Ellsberg, Daniel, xix

Emathla, Ote (Jumper), 152

Embargo Acts, 65, 88, 89

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, xvi, 203

Empire of Wealth, An
(Gordon), 12

England.
See
Great Britain

Ensor, Robert, 117–18, 119

 

Fallen Founder
(Isenberg), ix, 5

Federalist Party, 16, 22n, 36, 40, 41, 42–43, 45, 46, 52, 55, 88

Fenno, John, 38

Filibuster, 47, 47n

Fillmore, Millard, 212, 219, 252

Fisher, Patrick, 188

Fleming, Thomas, 28

Florida, 10, 52, 145, 182.
See also
Dade's Massacre

Andrew Jackson and, 101–3, 110, 162

defense of slavery and, 166–69

dogs tracking slaves in, 173–74

Gainesville, 13

Huguenot massacre, xxiv–xxv, 197

Indians, free blacks, and fugitive slave alliances, 101–3, 105, 147, 152, 154

Indians armed by Spain and Britain, 85

“Negro Fort,” 101–3, 104

raids on white settlers, 154–55

Seminole Wars, xxi–xxii, 13, 142, 145, 147, 161–63, 175

Spain cedes to U.S., 103, 251

Spanish losses in, 150

West Florida seized by U.S., 65

Fort Brooke, 150

Fort Caroline massacre, xxiv

Fort Jackson, 98

Fort King, 149, 153

Fort Mims massacre, xxi, 66, 70–76, 91, 93, 97, 104

Fort Ticonderoga, 26

Founding Fathers, ix, xiv–xxiii, 17–18

France

anti-Catholicism and, 199, 200

emancipation of slaves, 129

French Revolution, 129

Louisiana Purchase and, 10, 47

Napoléon and, 57

Napoleonic Wars, 65, 88

Peace of Paris, 199

“Quasi-War,” 39

Thomas Jefferson and, 36

Toussaint and Haiti, 129

West Indies campaign, 131

Franklin, Benjamin, 19–20, 198

Fremon, Charles, 240–41

Frémont, Jessie Benton, xxi

as author, 235, 239–40, 253

California ranch and wealth, 251

death of, 253

fame of, 235, 235n, 246

family and early years, 225–26, 237–38

journey to California, 1949, xviii, 223, 225, 228–30, 235, 247–48

marries John Frémont, 238

politics and, 251–52

Frémont, John Charles, xx–xxi, 247

antislavery position, 252

“birthers” and, xxiii, 212–13