Indian removal act

Question 1

What is a tariff

Answer 1

Taxes on imports from foreign countries

Question 2

When did congress pass a high protective tariff

Answer 2

In 1828

Question 3

Who liked the tariff of 1828 and who didn’t like it

Answer 3

manufactures liked the tariff (North)
People who grow stuff will not like it (South)

Question 4

Who was John C. Calhoun

Answer 4

He was a vice president, he believed the tariff was unconstitutional since it followed the North, insisted that states had the right to refuse to follow a law if the state felt it violated their rights.

Question 5

What does nullification mean

Answer 5

A rejection of the law

Question 6

What did John C. Calhoun and many southerners call the tariff of 1828

Answer 6

The tariff of Abomination

Question 7

When was the nullification ordinance passed

Answer 7

1832

Question 8

How did the nullification ordinance happen

Answer 8

When South Carolina was not pleased and declared the tariffs null and void. They also stated that they would leave if the federal government used force to make them comply

Question 9

What was Andrew Jackson’s response to the nullification ordinance

Answer 9

He said secession would be considered treason he defended the federal government power to impose tariffs and chastised South Carolina for violating federal law because a state had no right to declare it null and void

Question 10

What did Andrew Jackson ask congress

Answer 10

He asked them to use military force to compel South Carolina

Question 11

What was passed in 1833 that had to do with South Carolina

Answer 11

The force bill

Question 12

What was passed in 1833 that had to do with Henry Clay

Answer 12

Compromise tariff

Question 13

Why did nationalists think they won

Answer 13

Because they showed that no state is more powerful than the federal government

Question 14

When did the Black hawk war happen

Answer 14

1827

Question 15

What happened in the Black hawk war

Answer 15

The U.S government says all native Americans must leave Ilinois

Question 16

What was Chief Black hawk of Souk’s response to the U.S government

Answer 16

He refused to leave saying no one owned the land

Question 17

What did U.S settlers do

Answer 17

They moved into the Souk village when the Souk people were hunting

Question 18

What did Souk do to the U.S settlers

Answer 18

They attacked them which allowed the U.S to send troops to drive out the Indians

Question 19

What did President Jackson do to the Indians

Answer 19

He forced the Indians to move west of the Mississippi

Question 20

What did congress establish

Answer 20

They established Indian territory (Oklahoma) as the Indian home

Question 21

What did the U.S government create

Answer 21

The bureau of Indian Affairs

Question 22

Where did the Cherokee Indians live

Answer 22

In the Applanation mountains of Georgia and Tennessee

Question 23

What culture did the Cherokee adopt

Answer 23

They adopted the culture of the whites; they wrote and spoke English they even had their own written langue and newspaper they also based their government on the U.S constitution

Question 24

What did the Cherokee do in response to the government trying to kick them of there land

Answer 24

They sued the government of Georgia for taking their land

Question 25

Who won when the Cherokee sued for the land

Answer 25

The Cherokee won

Question 26

What did President Jackson say in response to the Cherokee Sueing for land

Answer 26

“Chief Justice John Marshall has made his decision. Now let him enforce it”

Question 27

What was the trail of tears

Answer 27

U.S troops moved 18,000 Cherokee at gunpoint 800 miles

Question 28

How many Cherokee died

Answer 28

25% mostly elderly and children