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* [[Noble Bigot]]: Andrew Jackson is portrayed as this. He is highly bigoted, even by the standards of the time, and does not hesitate to call friendly Cherokees "savages", ask how Houston can be so sure that his coloured teamsters won't steal his gear, and sum up state militias as drunken and cowardly to a man. However, he decides not to shoot Red Eagle (a rebel Cherokee responsible for a major massacre) because he surrendered voluntarily, promotes a coloured sergeant to commissioned rank (against regulations), and threatens to kill a man who won't join the militia himself but protests against arming free coloured men. Essentially, the Andrew Jackson in the book is bigoted against groups, but is capable of respecting an individual who is especially heroic and/or a fierce fighter. While he is a bigot, he hates fools and cowards even more.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Enforced in that "The Arkansas War" wasn't planned to be the second book. That was "The Trail of Glory", which would cover the alternate Cherokee migration, the riots in New Orleans that are alluded to in "The Arkansas War", and how many of black freedmen ended up moving to Arkansas. It was nixed by the publisher.
* [[Pet the Dog]]/[[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Scheming politico Henry Clay may be the [[Big Bad]], if that isn't John C. Calhoun. But Clay is shown as genuinely outraged by the killing of {{Spoiler|Sam Houston's wife}}, even a year and more after it happened. When one of his supporters is callous enough to say that what's important is that no one can blame '''them''', Clay reprimands him very sharply. There are no witnesses there who '''aren't''' his supporters, so he's not doing it for the publicity.
* [[Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility]]: Type I, though some question the probability of the events as depicted in the novels and would argue the series more qualifies for Type II.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Many in the U.S., primarily slaveholders and would-be slaveholders, regard Arkansas Army as this and/or wish to convince everyone else of it. When angered, General Ball pulls it off magnificently in his own right.
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