1. 24 April 2014
Do now: Why did Jackson support the policy of using force to move Native Americans beyond the Mississippi River?
Why do you think Andrew Jackson supported states’ rights in the Cherokee case but not in the Nullification Crisis.

2. Trial of Tears Trial of Tears
How did the Cherokee attempt to acculturate to American customs? (How did they try to fit into to American culture?)
What rights were the Cherokee denied?
Was the Indian Removal Act popular?
How and why were the Cherokee removed?

3. Whig Party Created as an opposition to Jacksonian Democratic Party.
Named after the Whigs of the American Revolution = Another name for patriot
Believed in having a National Bank
Believed in the supremacy of Congress over the President
4 Presidents (Harrison –died in office, Tyler, Taylor- died in office, Fillmore)
Party begins to dissolve over slavery (Republican party is formed Lincoln)