A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson

Notes on Contributors ix
 
Acknowledgments xiv
 
Introduction: The President and His Era 1
Sean Patrick Adams
 
Part I Young Andrew Jackson's America 13
 
1. Life on the Early American Borderlands 15
Kevin T. Barksdale
 
2. The Foundations of Jackson's Removal Policy: U.S.-Indian Relations, 1775-1815 37
Tim Alan Garrison
 
3. The Old Southwest Becomes the Cotton Frontier 56
Daniel S. Dupre
 
4. Andrew Jackson and the Legacy of the Battle of New Orleans 79
Matthew Warshauer
 
Part II The Era of the "Common Man" 93
 
5. The Market Revolution 95
Brian Phillips Murphy
 
6. Religious Revivalism and Public Life 111
Eric R. Schlereth
 
7. Internal Improvements 130
Stephen Campbell
 
8. Slavery and the Making of the Old South 154
Robert H. Gudmestad
 
9. Creating a Democracy of Common Men 170
Michael Zakim
 
10. The Ambiguities of Class in Antebellum America 194
Brian P. Luskey
 
11. Antislavery to Abolitionism 213
L. Diane Barnes
 
Part III Politics in the Age of Jackson 229
 
12. The Early Jackson Party: A Force for Democratization? 231
Thomas Coens
 
13. The Myth and Reality of Andrew Jackson's Rise in the Election of 1824 260
Sharon Ann Murphy
 
14. The Elections of 1824 and 1828 and the Birth of Modern Politics 280
John M. Sacher
 
15. "She's as Chaste as a Virgin!": Gender, Political Platforms, and the Second American Party System 298
Nancy Morgan
 
16. The Rise of the Whig Party 328
Frank Towers
 
17. The Fog of War: Jackson, Biddle and the Destruction of the Bank of the United States 348
Stephen Mihm
 
18. The Nullifi cation Crisis 376
Kevin M. Gannon
 
19. Native American Removal 391
Andrew K. Frank
 
20. Radicalism in the Age of Jackson 412
Joshua R. Greenberg
 
Part IV Jacksonian Legacies 433
 
21. Financial Panics in the Early American Republic 435
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Sean Patrick Adams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is the author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (2004) and editor of The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader (2008), as well as several articles on 19th-century American history.