This document provides instructions for students to complete several pages of an interactive notebook on Andrew Jackson and the presidency. For pages 8-9, students take notes on key events and topics from readings about early 19th century politics. On page 11, students generate topic sentences summarizing sections from a reading about Jackson's Native American policies. Page 10 asks students to retell the Trail of Tears through fictional text messages between historical figures. Page 13 involves annotating a reading about Jackson and the Bank War.

1. Interactive Notebook pages 8-13

3. For Page 8, students read pages 324-326 and take
“quadrant notes” for each section:
• New Parties Emerge
• The House Chooses the President
• Adams as President
• The Election of 1828
After taking the notes, students write two questions
that come up from the reading, sort of “If all of this is
true, then what happens if…”
These should be analytical in nature and NOT simple
questions like “who was running in the election of…”
Students should use the Post-it Notes given in class to
put on top of the quadrant notes they take.
For Page 9, students read pages 327-329 and take
Cornell Notes highlighting things like:
• replacing caucuses
• spoils system
• tariffs and the nullification crisis in SC
• other items as well

5. For Page 11, students read pages 330-335 and create topic
sentences for each section…up to two per section. One is
modeled in class. The following headings are covered:
• Removing Native Americans
• The Cherokee Versus Georgia
• The Trail of Tears
• The Seminole Wars
• Life in the West
• An example of this would be from the reading of Removing
Native Americans (pg 330-331):
• Topic Sentence – Andrew Jackson supported the white
settlers’ demand for Native American lands in the East even
though groups like the “Five Civilized Tribes” (Cherokee,
Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw) had established
successful communities there.

6. For Page 10, students retell the story of the Trail of Tears
by creating a log of text messages from the major players
of the time. Players would include:
Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
John Ross
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Osceola
Martin Van Buren
Winfield Scott
Francis Dade
Not everyone has to be included, but enough need to
“chime in” in order to accurately tell the story

7. For Page 13, students read, annotate and complete
the Cornell Notes on Jackson and the Bank
(Chapter 12, Lesson 3 – pages 336-341). This page
was given to the students in class.
Page 12 is a student page that is up to the
individual.