Jeffersonian Indian Removal and the Emergence of Arkansas Territory

2005 ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
S. CHARLES BOLTON
Keyword(s):  
Indian Removal

Sentimental Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-135
Author(s):  
Maria A. Windell
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indian Removal ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexican War ◽  
American Novel ◽  
The Us ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Racialized Violence ◽  
Systemic Corruption

Chapter 3 explores instances of “sentimental diplomacy” in the literary aftermath of the US–Mexican War and Indian Removal. It opens by arguing that the heroines of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don (1885)—who seek to counter the violence and dispossession of late-nineteenth-century Californios—stand as unrecognized heirs to the women in John Rollin Ridge’s 1854 novel of Mexican banditry, Joaquín Murieta. Amidst the sensational violence of Joaquín Murieta, the first Native American novel, Mexican and Anglo-American women engage in a sentimental diplomacy that resists rampant racialized violence. In both The Squatter and the Don and Joaquín Murieta, sentimental diplomacy offers local possibilities for peace, but in neither novel can it overcome the war’s brutal legacy or the racism and systemic corruption that followed.

Andrew Jackson and US Foreign Relations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Opal
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Indian Removal ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Southern States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Open Markets

The foreign relations of the Jacksonian age reflected Andrew Jackson’s own sense of the American “nation” as long victimized by non-white enemies and weak politicians. His goal as president from 1829 to 1837 was to restore white Americans’ “sovereignty,” to empower them against other nations both within and beyond US territory. Three priorities emerged from this conviction. First, Jackson was determined to deport the roughly 50,000 Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles living in southern states and territories. He saw them as hostile nations who threatened American safety and checked American prosperity. Far from a domestic issue, Indian Removal was an imperial project that set the stage for later expansion over continental and oceanic frontiers. Second and somewhat paradoxically, Jackson sought better relations with Great Britain. These were necessary because the British Empire was both the main threat to US expansion and the biggest market for slave-grown exports from former Indian lands. Anglo-American détente changed investment patterns and economic development throughout the Western Hemisphere, encouraging American leaders to appease London even when patriotic passions argued otherwise. Third, Jackson wanted to open markets and secure property rights around the globe, by treaty if possible but by force when necessary. He called for a larger navy, pressed countries from France to Mexico for outstanding debts, and embraced retaliatory strikes on “savages” and “pirates” as far away as Sumatra. Indeed, the Jacksonian age brought a new American presence in the Pacific. By the mid-1840s the United States was the dominant power in the Hawaiian Islands and a growing force in China. The Mexican War that followed made the Union a two-ocean colossus—and pushed its regional tensions to the breaking point.

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