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Andrew Jacksons Victory in the Creek War Set the Stage for Southern Secession 50 Years Later

Published: April 11, 2023, 1:20 p.m.

b'An oft-overlooked chapter in American History is the Creek War, a conflict between the Creek Indians and a young United States hungry for expansion in the early 1800s. It\\u2019s remembered as an important early chapter in the life of Andrew Jackson, but what few realize is that it altered the course of early American history more than any other event, opening the Deep South to plantation cultivation and setting the stage for the Civil War. Today\\u2019s guest is Peter Cozzens, author of \\u201cA Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South.\\u201d We discuss the dispossession of Indian lands by the young American republic and an unexplored piece of early American history, and a vivid portrait of Jackson as a young, ambitious, and cruel military commander.'