WI: Jackson Era without Jackson?

Saphroneth

Banned
Inspired by this blog post:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/05/03/spell-c-l-h-o-u-n-across-steel-grey-sky/

After retrieving my eyebrows from the ceiling, my next thought about Trump’s comments was that it might serve as a kind of writing prompt. There’s a fun alternative history that might arise from this idea of what if Andrew Jackson had been born a generation later?

Pondering such a thing risks falling into the kind of “great man” errors that Trump falls for here, but to me the interesting part is trying to re-imagine the Jackson Era without Jackson. We could imagine a different outcome in the Seminole Wars, thus giving the Underground Railroad a southern destination and perhaps creating a very different Florida, with a possible alliance between Seminoles and former slaves. Maybe President Clay grants it statehood sooner, and on those terms. Meanwhile, in Georgia, the growing presence of a vibrant community of Cherokee Baptists — not decimated and displaced by Jackson in this timeline — might just mean a different trajectory for the Baptist conventions of the 1840s. …

As for Jackson himself, I’d have him born 50 years later in this alternative timeline, as Trump suggests. That will make him just 19 years old, in my story, when he dies at the Alamo.

Imagining the Jackson Era without Jackson could be a lot of fun.


So - does this inspire anyone to imagine the America of such a timeline?
 

B-29_Bomber

Banned
Forceful Indian Removal, while future presidents might try to make it a thing, likely wouldn't have the forceful personality of Jackson, so it isn't likely to survive a SCOTUS challenge unlike OTL. Either way, the Cherokee have even odds of remaining on their lands east of the Mississippi. If they can do so and survive into the 20th century, they might become a semi-autonomous zone.

It's not particularly likely, but if OP's scenario happened in a thousand worlds you might see it happen once. It sure as hell isn't ASB.
 
Forceful Indian Removal, while future presidents might try to make it a thing, likely wouldn't have the forceful personality of Jackson, so it isn't likely to survive a SCOTUS challenge unlike OTL. Either way, the Cherokee have even odds of remaining on their lands east of the Mississippi. If they can do so and survive into the 20th century, they might become a semi-autonomous zone.

They'd still be living in an increasingly hostile environment.

Look how the early Mormons got hounded from place to place - and they were white. Not to mention how Blacks fared during Reconstruction, despite being far more numerous than the Cherokee. Would the latter really fare so much better?
 
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