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The Unfinished Nation-Legacy of An Autocratic Ruler
Directions: As you watch the video, use the following objectives to organize your notes.
1. Recount the removal of Indian tribes from the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River.
Understand the reasons for their removal, the methods used by the government to gain title to Indian lands, the
ways some tribes resisted relocation, and the journey to Indian Territory along the Trail of Tears.
2. Explain Andrew Jackson’s dispute with the Bank of the United States, the reasons for his distrust of the Bank, his
efforts to destroy the Bank, and the political and economic ramifications of the Bank war.
3. Analyze the rise of the Whig party including its emergence, its leaders and constituency, its campaign tactics in
the elections of 1836 and 1840, and its inability to enact much of its own domestic program.
4. Identify some of the foreign policy achievements of Whig diplomacy in the early 1840s.