June 5, 2012
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TH E BRUIN The Middle School Newspaper “The Debate”
by Henry Jonokuchi Today during Social Studies power over the state government. Colin stated that the Tariff only we had a debate. The question of The last presenter for the side in favored the North and the West, was the debate was, “Would Andrew favor was Harry, and he talked about one of the causes of the Civil War, Jackson be considered a qualified the National Bank, and how Jackson and that worsened the South’s Presidential candidate by today’s cut the bank’s charter and forced it economy. voters?” There were two sides: one to close so every citizen had the same in favor, and one against. The status. Then, Harry stated that the After each member presented, the members of the side in favor were ordinary citizen could not use the leaders of both teams (Braxton and Braxton Reynolds, Ben Powers, and National Bank because the bank Ian) presented conclusions for their Harry Fett, while the other side had basically only helped the wealthy. side’s presentation and then stepped Ian Murray, Jack Withstandley, and out of the room so that the jury (the Colin Lee. Each member of both Ian presented first for the side rest of the class) could decide the sides presented different individual against, and generally talked about winning team. Each member of the topics that helped to prove their side Jackson’s poor decisions which jury cast their secret ballot, and then of the argument. Each presenter had resulted in the Tariff of Abomination the teams came back in the 2 minutes to complete their and the Trail of Tears. The tariff classroom and Mr. Callahan read the presentation, and the side in favor caused disruption in the Union and votes aloud. It was very close, and started first. the Trail of Tears forced Native after reading out all of the 9 votes, Braxton presented facts about Americans to leave their land. Next the side against came out victorious, Andrew Jackson’s life. He stated came Jack, who presented further winning by a single vote. Although th that he was the 7 President, won the details regarding the Trail of Tears. this debate was fun and suspenseful, Battle of New Orleans in the War of Basically, after the Cherokee went to it was also educational in that it 1812, and was a man of the people. the Supreme Court to get a ruling helped us to review all of Andrew Also, he kept the Union together from Chief Justice John Marshall, Jackson’s Presidential decisions, when South Carolina threatened to Andrew Jackson just ignored it and effective or not. secede. Following Braxton’s forced them to leave. The Cherokee presentation came Ben. Ben were forced to move to present-day presented Jackson’s decisions that Oklahoma at gunpoint and the kept the Union together, and spoke “Indian Territory” consisted of bad of how Jackson delayed the Civil terrain for farming, and had adverse War from happening at the time. weather conditions. The last Ben also mentioned the fact that the presenter was Colin, who talked federal government proved it had about the Tariff of Abomination. Thanks everyone for an amazing year at the Bruin! We’d like to specially commend Dan Forester for submitting an amazing amount of articles this year, though sadly as they became out of date, he requested that we not publish them. Overall this year we published 4 editions, one in the fall, one in the winter, one in the spring, and this one. Thanks for reading this edition of the Bruin, the last this school year. Have a happy summer!
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