HIST 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reverend Lovejoy, Street Fighting, William Lloyd Garrison
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Hist 161 - lecture five - jacksonian democracy: a white man"s republic. During this time period masters to bosses transition and reducement of masters and journeymen, increase in wage earning jobs, etc. In some ways this leads to assertion of whiteness as a point of pride. In the 1830s there were five nations in the american southeast the cherokee, the. Indian nations were not allied with each other and were fairly small. Really ethnic cleansing/genocide, the forced displacement of one group for another, this precipitated the movement of people into southeast. Trail of tears, many died not enough food provided, disease, etc. This was a popular policy especially among white men but it wasn"t a. Cotton is king (1790 - 1860) the land the indians were forced to leave became prime unanimous one especially contested in the northeast. cotton country. The black belt" for extremely fertile soil.
