Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
States expand white male voting rights
Martin Van Buren creates disciplined party in New York
House of Representatives selects John Quincy Adams as president
Adams endorses Henry Clay’s American System
Working Men’s Parties win support
Tariff of Abominations raises duties
Andrew Jackson elected president
John C. Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest
Jackson vetoes National Road bill
Congress enacts Jackson’s Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia denies Indians’ independence, but Worcester v. Georgia (1832) upholds their political autonomy
Massacre of 850 Sauk and Fox warriors at Bad Axe
Jackson vetoes renewal of Second Bank
South Carolina adopts Ordinance of Nullification
Congress enacts compromise tariff
Whig Party formed by Clay, Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
Roger Taney named Supreme Court chief justice
Van Buren elected president
Charles River Bridge case weakens chartered monopolies
Panic of 1837 derails economy and labor movement
Many Cherokees die in Trail of Tears march to Indian Territory
Defaults on bonds by state governments spark international financial crisis and depression
Whigs win “log cabin campaign”
John Tyler succeeds William Henry Harrison as president