1830–1840: Jackson’s Democracy, the Trail of Tears, and Texas Rising
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In the 1830s America claimed a louder democratic voice under Andrew Jackson while forcing Native nations from their lands, nearly splitting over tariffs and nullification, watching Texas win independence, and then plunging into the Panic of 1837. Jim Rand walks through the decade when ordinary citizens, settlers, and families felt the pull of expansion, the weight of ambition, and the hard cost of choices that still shape the country.
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