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TARIFF OF ABOMINATION GOES INTO EFFECT
The protective tariffs taxed all foreign goods, to boost the sales of US products and protect Northern manufacturers from cheap British goods -
CONGRESS PASSES THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT
The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
ANDREW JACKSON VETOES THE MAYSVILLE ROAD BILL
Jackson vetoed the bill on the grounds that federal funding of intrastate projects of this nature was unconstitutional. ... Some authors have described the motives behind the veto decision as personal, rather than strictly political. -
SUPREME COURT ISSUES CHEROKEE NATION V. GEORGIA DECISION
the Supreme Court to determine whether a state may impose its laws on Native Americans and their territory -
ANDREW JACKSON VETOES THE BANK RECHARTER BILL
arguing that in the form presented to him it was incompatible with “justice,” “sound policy” and the Constitution. ... The charter was bad policy for several technical reasons -
SOUTH CAROLINA PASSES ORDINANCE OF NULLIFICATION
the South Carolina legislature passed the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional, and thereby null and void. The Nullification Crisis began with this act. -
SUPREME COURT ISSUES WORCESTER V. GEORGIA DECISION
Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision helped form the basis for most subsequent Indian law in the United States, that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on Native American land -
CONGRESS PASSES THE FORCE BILL, AUTHORIZING MILITARY FORCE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
during the Nullification Crisis and authorized President Jackson to use military force against any state that resisted the protective tariff laws. South Carolina were particularly fierce in their opposition and declared the tariffs were unconstitutional. -
CONGRESS PASSES HENRY CLAY'S COMPROMISE TARIFF WITH JACKSON'S SUPPORT
After Jackson issued his proclamation, Congress passed the Force Act that authorized the use of military force against any state that resisted the tariff acts. In 1833, Henry Clay helped broker a compromise bill with Calhoun that slowly lowered tariffs over the next decade. -
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE MARTIN VAN BUREN IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
With Jackson's support, Van Buren won the presidential nomination of the 1835 Democratic National Convention without opposition. -
EASTERN INDIANS ARE FORCED WEST ON THE TRIAL OF TEARS
Trail of Tears, in U.S. history, the forced relocation during the 1830s of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the Southeast region of the United States (including Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. -
FINANCIAL PANIC DEFLATES THE ECONOMY
The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. -
WHIG CANDIDATE WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON IS ELECTED PRESIDENT
Whig nominee William Henry Harrison defeated incumbent President Martin Van Buren of the Democratic Party. The election marked the first of two Whig victories in presidential elections. In 1839, the Whigs held a national convention for the first time -
INDEPENDENT TREASURY ESTABLISHED
a reduction of the tariff the two pillars of his domestic economic program, and pushed both through Congress.
