Who Dat?
No One Likes the Natives
You Thought!
Nope
Things We Argue About
100
"The removal of the tribes from the territory which they now inhabit . . . would not only protect them from unavoidable ruin, but increase their welfare and happiness. Experience has clearly demonstrated that it is impossible to incorporate them into our society. "
Who is President Monroe?
100
This is the official name of the law that empowered the government to force Native Americans out of their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
100
This was the reason the first Whig to become president only served a few weeks.
What is death by pneumonia?
100
This principle says that States should be allowed to cancel or void any federal law which they do not like.
What is Nullification?
100
This man led a violent slave revolt across southern Virginia, killed over 50 whites.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
"And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the present day are past - we will look back upon this, I fear, with self-reproach, and with bitter regret."
Who is Edward Everett?
200
These are the two groups who supporters of removal claimed would benefit from the Indian Removal Act.
Who are the native Americans and the U.S. government?
200
This agreement prolonged the argument over slavery by adding one slave State to the Union and breaking another State into two.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This State came into conflict with the federal government after trying to nullify the Tariff of Abominations.
What is South Carolina?
200
This system was designed by President Jackson to get more ordinary people serving in public office, but it was soon criticized as a way to reward his friends.
What is the Spoils System?
300
"It is my pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians... is approaching a happy completion."
Who is President Jackson?
300
This was found on Cherokee land in the 1830s, prompting increased interest from white settlers in taking over the area.
What is gold?
300
The group of people who were allowed to vote was expanded during Andrew Jackson's presidency by removing this requirement for voting.
What is property ownership?
300
If you are a State, to do this means to leave the United States and become independent.
What is secede?
300
This was the crime that caused an outcry in San Francisco over whether sanctuary cities should be allowed (what Jessica and Raul were writing about).
What is the murder of a young woman walking on the pier?
400
"These Democratic party ideas have ruined the country. They have driven the natives into their doom. The destruction of the National Bank has left our economy helpless. I ask you to vote for me to defeat President Van Buren!"
Who is William Henry Harrison?
400
This was the primary motive which President Monroe mentioned as the reason the U.S. government should remove the native Americans.
What is the promise to Georgia to extinguish native control of lands?
400
This vice-president, who was secretly a Democrat, became president after the death of the first Whig president.
Who is John Tyler?
400
This was the primary reason that people in the North supported the Tariff of Abominations.
What is the Tariff harmed slave owners by making it difficult to import materials they needed?
400

This was the primary motivation for the formation of the Whig Party.

What is opposition to President Jackson and Democratic policies?

500
"It is a State's right - indeed sir, it is the State's obligation - to nullify any laws of the federal government which may interfere with that State's well-being. South Carolina must say no to this Tariff of Abominations."
Who is John C. Calhoun?
500
This Supreme Court case decided that the Cherokee tribe could not be forced out of its lands, although the government decided to ignore it.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
500
This event was an economic crisis which occurred during the presidency of Martin Van Buren because there was no National Bank.
What is the Panic of 1837?
500
The compromise that was worked out to end the Nullification Crisis involved these two actions, one by the federal government and one by South Carolina.
What is the federal government agreed to get rid of the Tariff and South Carolina agreed to reject the idea of Nullification.
500

This man, nominated by President Trump, is currently in the process of being confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.

Who is Neil Gorsuch?

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