Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Myth of Open Wilderness and the Outlines of Big Government
- 2 Managed Expansion in the Early Republic
- 3 Tippecanoe and Treaties, Too: Executive Leadership, Organization, and Effectiveness in the Years of the Factory System
- 4 The Key to Success and the Illusion of Failure
- 5 Big Government Jacksonians
- 6 Tragically Effective: The Administration of Indian Removal
- 7 Public Administration, Politics, and Indian Removal: Perpetuating the Illusion of Failure
- 8 Clearing the Indian Barrier: Indian Affairs at the Center of National Expansion
- 9 Containment and the Weakening of Indian Resistance: The Effectiveness of Reservation Administration
- 10 What's an Administrator To Do? Reservations and Politics
- Conclusion: The Myth of Limited Government
- References
- Index
3 - Tippecanoe and Treaties, Too: Executive Leadership, Organization, and Effectiveness in the Years of the Factory System
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Myth of Open Wilderness and the Outlines of Big Government
- 2 Managed Expansion in the Early Republic
- 3 Tippecanoe and Treaties, Too: Executive Leadership, Organization, and Effectiveness in the Years of the Factory System
- 4 The Key to Success and the Illusion of Failure
- 5 Big Government Jacksonians
- 6 Tragically Effective: The Administration of Indian Removal
- 7 Public Administration, Politics, and Indian Removal: Perpetuating the Illusion of Failure
- 8 Clearing the Indian Barrier: Indian Affairs at the Center of National Expansion
- 9 Containment and the Weakening of Indian Resistance: The Effectiveness of Reservation Administration
- 10 What's an Administrator To Do? Reservations and Politics
- Conclusion: The Myth of Limited Government
- References
- Index
Summary
William Henry Harrison is perhaps best remembered for dying a month after his coatless inaugural address in 1841. At the time, though, Harrison was recognized as one of the nation's most famous military and political figures. Perhaps the most memorable campaign slogan in American history, “Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too” recalled for voters Harrison's most notable contribution: his 1811 victory at Tippecanoe over a pan-Indian confederacy, following Tecumseh and aligned with the British, that threatened to close off the lands to the West and stifle U.S. expansion into the Ohio region.
Landmark battles and groundbreaking victories involving American Indians led Harrison to the presidency, and catapulted the careers of many other officials in politics and government in the opening decades of the nineteenth century. In the race against Harrison, for example, Martin Van Buren's running mate was Richard M. Johnson – widely credited with actually killing Tecumseh, and known to be the driving force behind the popular and effective Choctaw Academy school, founded in 1825. Andrew Jackson, in some ways Harrison's opposite number in the South, rode a military background built in large part on Indian affairs into the presidency. Yet a focus on the military events of the early nineteenth century obscures what men like Harrison did far more often and with far quieter effectiveness: they managed the orderly acquisition of lands and territories in the West. The process was difficult: slow, incremental years of building relationships, trading, negotiating, pressuring, cajoling, and cheating.
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