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The Cumberland road
Over its comlicated history, the road has gone by multiple names. The Cumberland Road is a National road, The National Road is a National Highway and US Route 40, to name a few. The original Road has been "reconstructed" and "redirected" in some places over the years. For the most part the old road lives on. -
erie canal
The New York State Canal is not only good in history, but also culture. Many immigrants worked long and hard on "Clinton’s Ditch" to create this magnificent waterway. the canal prospects appear to bottem out.
Canal openedat Brockport. In october 26 the construction is finished. -
The emergence of Sectionalism
In 1815 the United States was a respectful and confident nation. The second war with England had come to a good conclution, and Americans seemed united as never before. -
Election of john Quincy adams
Even thogh John Quincy Adams should have been the apparent to the presidency as James Monroe's secretary of state,the year of 1824 was a political changing point wich none of the old rules applied. -
sequoya writes the cherokee language
Sequoyah was born around between 1760 and 1776 in Overhills
country near the Cherokee village of Tushkeegee.On the Tennessee
River near old Fort Loudoun in Tennessee. His mother, Wu-teh, was
a member of the Paint Clan and his father. -
tariff of adomination
The goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States which were being driven out of business by low-priced imported goods by putting a tax on them. The South, however, was harmed firstly by having to pay higher prices on goods the region did not produce, and secondly because reducing the importation of British goods made it difficult for the British to pay for the cotton they imported from the South. -
election of andrew jackson
Born in poverty, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) had become a wealthy Tennessee lawyer and rising young politician by 1812, when war broke out between the United States and Britain. His leadership in that conflict earned Jackson national fame as a military hero, and he would become America's most influential–and polarizing–political figure during the 1820s and 1830s. -
indian removel act
After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1829, President Andrew Jackson signed this into law on May 28, 1830. -
cherokee nation v georgia
This bill is brought by the Cherokee Nation, praying an injunction to restrain the state of Georgia from the execution of certain laws of that state, which as is alleged, go directly to annihilate the Cherokees as a political society, and to seize, for the use of Georgia, the lands of the nation which have been assured to them by the United States in solemn treaties repeatedly made and still in force -
worchester v georgia
In the 1820s and 1830s Georgia conducted a relentless campaign to remove the Cherokees, who held territory within the borders of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee at the time. In 1827 the Cherokees established a constitutional government. -
president jackson vetoes the 2nd national bank of amrican
The Second Bank of the United States was created in the aftermath of the War of 1812 and had been controversial throughout its life. Many people blamed the Bank for the Panic of 1819, and Westerners and Southerners felt that the Bank in general, and its lending policies in particular, favored Northern interests over their own. -
nullificatio crisis
The Tariff of 1832, despite pleas from Southern representatives, failed to moderate the protective barriers erected in earlier legislation. The South Carolina passed an ordinance of nullification on November 24, 1832, and threatened to secede if the federal government attempted to collect those tariff duties -
secound seminole war
On December 28, 1835 Osceola murdered Indian agent Wiley Thompson. The same day, Major Francis Dade and his U.S. soldiers were ambushed by 300 Seminole warriors near Fort King (Ocala). These incidents began the Second Seminole War. The natives retreated into the Everglades, began guerilla tactics against U.S. forces and fought desperately for more than seven years. -
panic of 1837
The 1830s were a tumultuous decade for America. The attempt by the Second Bank of the United States for an early recharter was passed by Congress in July 1832, but the bill was vetoed shortly thereafter by President Andrew Jackson. The hopes of the bank's supporters to turn the veto in a winning campaign issue in that fall's presidential campaign failed dismally. -
trail of tears
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida--land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. -
era of good feelings
One of the leading journals promoting the philosophy of the Era of Good Feelings was Niles Weekly Register, founded in 1811. Hezekiah Niles believed strongly in the American national purpose and his publication, supported entirely by subscriptions and carrying no advertising, was highly influential at the time.
