Louisiana in the age of Jackson

the long version

In this work, Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., paints a fascinating picture of Louisiana as it responded to the great political upheaval known as Jacksonian democracy. Although the movement upset political stability in every state, its effect on Louisiana was unique. The first state to join the Union from outside the original boundaries of the nation, Louisiana in 1803 harbored a French population whose political and cultural sensibilities were foreign to the "American" newcomers who quickly surged into the area. In this examination of Louisiana's ethnic, economic, social, cultural, and political patterns in the 1820s and 1830s, Tregle tells the complex story of the clash of political interests and cultures that characterized the Jacksonian era in the state.