7.3/4: Age of Jackson Minilesson: Native Americans and Bank of US Work Time: - Letter to Cherokees - AJ Video Homework: 7.4
AJ vs. National Bank of US AJ hated BUS - helped wealthy Easterners opponents planned to use bank to defeat AJ in Elec of 1832 - persuaded Pres of BUS to apply for early charter extension - hoped AJ veto would lose him election AJ vetoed and won reelection - most supported veto killed bank ahead of 1836 - all $ withdrawn and put into state banks (“pet banks”) - BUS closed
Indian Removal AJ signed Indian Removal Act (1830) - NAs give up land in cotton rich south (east of Miss R) - fed gov’t estab. NA colonization zone (west of Miss R) Cherokees had adapted American ways - (i.e. constitution, courts, newspaper) - South refused to respect them SC case: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) - court ruled for Cherokees - Georgia did not comply SC case: Worcester v. Georgia (1831) - SC overturned Georgia convictions of missionaries - Cherokee sovereign nation w/ own laws AJ did not enforce SC ruling state matter Jackson: John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!
Trail of Tears (1838-1839) – Cherokee Nation some NAs in favor of exchanging land for western lands - most opposed from Georgia to present-day Oklahoma hunger, disease, exhaustion during forced march by military - 4,000 out of 15,000 died
The Cherokee Nation After 1820
Indian Removal
The Grand National Caravan Moving West
Trail of Tears (1838-1839)
Jackson’s Professed “Love” for Native Americans