This chapter will give you a perspective of the events surrounding 1819 and how those events were affecting not only Charleston, but the country as well. To give you an idea of exactly where 1819 fell within this country’s history, let’s take a minute and pinpoint it using historical characters and events. In 1819, Davy Crockett was still fighting Indians and was two years away from becoming a member of the Tennessee legislature. He had not yet met his fate at the Alamo. Another historical pioneer, Daniel Boone, was still alive but would die the following year. This was long before westward movement, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 or Custer and Crazy Horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. The War of 1812 had ended, and the Civil War, which would start in Charleston, was still decades away. In 1819, the threat of Indian attacks was a legitimate one. President James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, had been engaged in issues with the Seminole and the Creek tribes and had ordered Andrew Jackson to war against them.
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