Top Ten Most Painful

1.)Fugitive Slave Act 1793 was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slaveholding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
2.) First Seminole War 1817-1818 It was painful because it was the first war against the Indians in regard of the Indian Removal Act.
3.Native Americans defeated in Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory 1811 In response to rising tensions with the tribes and threats of war, an American force of militia and regulars set out to launch a preemptive strike on the headquarters of the confederacy.
4.)Indian territory Founded 1834 It was painful to the Indians because their land was taken from them again and they had to relocate.
5. The war of 1812 was painful because it was between the U.S. and British. There were several immediate states for the U.S. dedication of war.
6.Cherokee Trail of Tears 1838 After the Indian Removal Act of 1830, By Spring of 1838 almost all tribes east of the Mississippi had been relocated farther west or destroyed in battle.
7. Indian Removal Act 1830 This was painful because it was great pressure put on American Indian Leaders to sign removal treaties and emigration of ten of thousands of American Indians to the West.
8. Mexican War-1845-1846 It was painful because it was very dangerous.
9. Alien and Sedition Act 1798 this act prohibited immigration of “aliens” into the U.S. to protect from enemy powers.
10. Missouri Compromise 1820 It was painful because slavery was enforced and still being effected.