1. 7.3/4: Age of Jackson
Minilesson: Native Americans and Bank of US Work Time: - Letter to Cherokees - AJ Video Homework: 7.4

2. 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- all $ withdrawn and put into state banks (“pet banks”)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

3. 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!

4. 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

5. The Cherokee Nation After 1820

6. Indian Removal

7. The Grand National Caravan Moving West

8. Trail of Tears ( )

9. Jackson’s Professed “Love” for Native Americans