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United States History, 1490--1864, Dr. Miguda

In the Library

Andrew Jackson & Democracy

Library of Congress:  King Andrew the First, [ca. 1833]

Library of Congress: The Downfall of Mother Bank, [ca. 1833)

Digital Public Library of America:  Images of “hard times tokens” made between 1834 and 1841 to mock the economic policies of Andrew Jackson.

Digital Public Library of America:  A South Carolinian copy of Jackson’s 1833 message about nullification (includes transcription under scanned original)

Yale Law School: Lillian Goldman Law Library, The Avalon Project:  The Papers of Andrew Jackson (links to transcriptions of a selection of Jackson's writings, including inaugural addresses)

Propaganda War on Native Americans

National Archives: Milestone Documents:  President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830) (scanned original and transcription)

The University of Tennessee Knoxville:  The Papers of Andrew Jackson: College of Arts & Sciences: Greenwood Leflore and David Folsom to Andrew Jackson, March 18, 1830 (scanned original with link to transcription)

The University of Tennessee Knoxville:  The Papers of Andrew Jackson: College of Arts & Sciences:  Treaty Proposed by the Choctaw Nation, March 17, 1830 (scanned original with link to transcription)

University of Michigan Library: Digital Collections: [Andrew Jackson as the Great Father], scanned original, [ca. 1835?]

Digital Public Library of America:  A letter from President Andrew Jackson to the Cherokee Nation about the benefits of voluntary removal, March 16, 1835 (scanned copy of transcription)

Trail of Tears

Digital Public Library of America:  An 1884 map of the land surrendered by the Cherokee Nation to colonial governments and the United States government from 1721 to 1835 (scanned original)

Digital Public Library of America:  An 1897 letter from Henry B. Henegar, a wagon master employed by John Ross during the Trail of Tears, describing removal of the Ross Party.(click Show Full Description under document to get transcription)

ANCHOR: A North Carolina History Online Resource:  Primary Source: A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears (transcription)