Jackson was a land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in early American history. He became a hero of the War of 1812, which was not {as usually depicted in American textbooks} just a war against England for survival, but a war for the expansion of the new nation, into Florida, into Canada, into Indian territory."
( Howard Zinn )
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