Unit 5 Timeline Project.

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    The Cumberland Road

    The Cumberland Road was the first major improved highway in US built for federal goverment.
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    Era of Godd Feelings.

    This was the national mood of the United States when American citizens didn't need to much attention to European political and military affairs.
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    Erie Canal

    The Erie canal links the water of lake Erie in the west to the Hudson river in the east. Some people call it the 8th wonder of the world.
  • MIssouri Compromise

    MIssouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was the agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery slavery in the United States about the expansion of slavery in new territories.
  • Election of John Quincy Adams

    Election of John Quincy Adams
    John Quincy Adams was elected Feburary 9. Andrew jackson accsued Adams of being part of a "corrupt barrgain".
  • New Echota is founded.

    New Echota is founded.
    New echotd was the captial for the Cherokee Nation until their forced removal in the 1830's .
  • Tariff of Abominations

    The major goal of the tariff was to protect industries in the northern United States by putting a high tax on them.
  • The election of Andrew Jackson

    The election of Andrew Jackson
    The election of 1828 was knonw to be the dirtiest election ever. Man accusations where thrown at Jackson and also his wife Rachel. Jaclson won by 178 to 83 electoral votes. Andrew Jackson believed that the election was part of her early death.
  • Georgia nulifies Cherokee law.

    Georgie passed a law seizing land of the Cherokees. This also prohibited the Cherookees for testify in court against white men. The Cherokee could not mine gold. They also were not allowed hire white men.
  • Sequoyah Writes the Cherokee Language.

    Sequoyah Writes the Cherokee Language.
    Chief Sequoyah, of the Cherokee created the Cherokee syllabary.He was the son of Nathaniel Gist, a Virginia fur trader, and Wut-teh, daughter of a Cherokee chief. After Sequoyah had been crippled by a hunting accident in 1809, he became interested in developing an alphabet, or table of characters, for the eighty-six syllables in the Cherokee language - See more at: http://thomaslegion.net/sequoyah.html#sthash.KFnurA0m.dpuf
  • Americas 1st gold rush.

    Americas 1st gold rush.
    Gold was found in north Georgia in the Cherokee nation. By the spring of 1830, there where four thousand miners looking for gold.
  • Cherokee Vs. Georgia

    Cherokee v. georgie was a United States supreme court case where the Cherokee Nation looked for order against laws passed by Georgia depriving them of their rights.
  • Nulification Crisis

    The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina
  • Indian Removal Act

    Indian Removal Act
    A law wa signed by president Jackson, which forced the Indian nations to surrender their homelands and relocate.
  • Election on Martin Van Buran

    Election on Martin Van Buran
    Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States. As Andrew Jackson's Secretary of State and then Vice President. Van Buren was a key organizer of the Democratic Party. Van Buren was a key figure in building the organizational structure for Jacksonian democracy,
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    Panic of 1837

    The Panic of 1837 was a financial crisis in the United States. Alot of profits, prices and wages went down while the number of unemployment went up.
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    Trail of Tears

    In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip.