During Jackson's term in office he: refused to use Federal troops to protect the Cherokee tribe
appealed to the Supreme Court for authority to move the Cherokees from Georgia
signed treaties with tribes whereby the Native Americans received better lands than they gave up
supported the northeastern humanitarians who urged a just Native American policy

Mankiw attributes – chapter 1 and his 10 principles – differences in living standards within a countryover time and across countries at a moment in time to: a. the presence or absence of inflation and unemployment. b. the allocation of resources between private markets and the public sector. c. those that have dealt successfully with the efficiency v. equality tradeoff and those that haven’t. d. differences in productivity. e. ones that think at the margin and respond to incentives and those that don’t.