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An examination of the attitudes and policies of Andrew Jackson concerning the American Indian
<p>This study will focus on the development of Andrew Jackson's attitude toward the American Indian and the effect of these attitudes on the shaping of official United states policy toward the Indians.</p><p>Jackson was born and raised on the frontier. There his prejudices were acquired and his …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
Andrew Jackson has inspired numerous biographies and works of historical scholarship, but his religious views have attracted very little attention. Jackson may have been a giant on the political landscape, but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and …
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AMOS KENDALL: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY (JACKSON; KENTUCKY; BANKING)
… one of the principal advisers to President Andrew Jackson. The study is based on primary sources and documents, as well as the standard secondary literature on the Jacksonian period of American history.</p><p>Kendall's career in politics is examined in its entirety, including his activities …
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Jackson and the Removal of the Bank Deposits
… dared to accept a challenge. Thus It was with Andrew Jackson in the presidential election of 1832, There was but one issue —and that, the bank. Jackson had viewed the Issue as a principle of his program, and since he cared less for his popularity, he had accepted the challenge with all the …
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Assumptions Of Authority: Social Washington's Evolution From Republican Court To Self-Rule, 1801-1831
… its source of social authority. When President Andrew Jackson attempted to force official society to accept the less than reputable wife of his secretary of war, he learned that the ladies of that society did not follow presidential edicts when it came to who they would admit, or not admit, into …
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Refinement and Architecture in Early Ypsilanti
… are architectural style books such as those by Andrew Jackson Downing, pioneer writings such as those of Caroline Kirkland and Solon Robinson, historical buildings, and probate record inventories of Washtenaw County. Ypsilantians did not assume the genteel refinement that developed in the …
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The Origins and Development of the Indian Removal Policy
… to the western side of the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson's role in these developments will be stressed. Procedure. After a brief review of pre-Jeffersonian Indian policy, the thesis traces the events which led from the formulation of the removal concept at the beginning of the 19th century …
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Measured shadows of Thomas Jefferson: A transit from amateur landscape gardening to professional landscape architecture
… the efforts of such canonical figures as Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Calvert Vaux by fifty years. Landscape architecture and the United States share a material and symbolic foundation in Jefferson, whose philosophy promoted a sense of eternal nascence from the ground …
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The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
… interpretation. It argues that Jeffersonian and Jacksonian statebuilders harnessed science to create a new kind of a central state—what I call ‘the scientific-military state’—that was capable of projecting great power in accordance with liberty, limited government, and states’ rights. Drawing on …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… (1947), a cantata centered on the character of Andrew Jackson. Chapter 8 examines Bryan's largest work, the two-act opera Singin' Billy (1952). It is based on a fictional episode in the life of nineteenth-century singing-school master William Walker, compiler of Southern Harmony . Chapter 9 …
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Seeing the constitution as they see it: Presidential reconstitutions, executive power, and interbranch conflict
… the judiciary, and expanded executive power: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. Jackson’s Veto Message on the Bank defended a “glass cage” Constitution, where the slightest deviation would shatter an authoritative but fragile document. Lincoln defended the suspension of …
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"From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: tales of a ""fallen"" race, 1873-1968"
… as Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson, and others carved out the wilderness and forged a nation. Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to proclaim that these men and their progeny comprised a “Kentucky race” and a “backwoods race” that at once embodied the allegedly supreme …
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Political metamorphosis: an historical profile of the Democratic Party in North Carolina, 1800-1892
… and finally William S. Hoffman (<em>Andrew Jackson and North Carolina Politics</em>). Any discussion of party leadership in the years covered by this study requires considerable reference to the political issues and trends of the times. An extended analysis and review of this …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… were furthered by the President of the people, Andrew Jackson. Now many American artists became less interested in formal portraiture and historical anecdote and more concerned in observing and recording, first hand, the everyday nuances of life around them. The greatest emphasis in the …
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Phenomenological Investigation of Low Mode Marginal Planar Detonations
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