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Indian Removal Act
Law passed by Congress in 1830 and supported by President Andrew Jackson allowing the U.S. government to remove the Native Americans from their eastern homelands and force them to move west of the Mississippi River. Many tribes agreed to voluntary removal.
Resulted from Indians trying to return to their home land led by Chief Black Hawk. (Black Hawk's War)
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Led by Osceola, the Seminoles fought removal. With the help of escaped slaves, many of the Seminole made it to the southern swamps of the Everglades where they were able to hid and avoid removal.
The Cherokee people have been recognized as a nation by treaty with the US. The Cherokee had a written language, a legislature, a court system, and a militia. They fought their removal all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled in their favor. President Jackson refused to enforce the court's ruling and allowed the state of Georgia to remove the Cherokee from their land.
Was the first time a president disregarded the Supreme Court, angering many , and thus the controversy of his impeachment.
Led to the Trail of Tears - The Cherokees were forced to move 1,000 miles west on foot. Along the way 4,000 Cherokees died from cold, lack of food, shelter, and disease.
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
South Carolina became very united, but isolated from the rest of the country, especially when it seceded.
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Southerners started to question whether President Jackson and the democrats really represented southern interests.
South Carolina created an Ordinance of Nullification in 1832. It declared that the federal Tariff of 1828 and of 1832 were unconstitutional and South Carolina just weren't going to follow them! South Carolina didn't want to pay taxes on goods it didn't produce.
In November 1832 the Nullification Convention met. The convention declared that the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable within the state of South Carolina after February 1, 1833
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