Write a book review on The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians by Anthony F.C. Wallace. In your analysis, please touch upon these three (3) questions:
- What were the economic and political forces driving the hunger for Indian land in the south?
- What was Andrew Jackson’s role in the Removal Crisis?
- Prior to Andrew Jackson’s presidency (1828-36), Wallace argues in Ch. 2, there was a “deep division in the nation regarding the proper Indian policy of the states and the federal government” (p. 48). What contradictory ideas and policies were Americans pursuing before 1828?