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Jacksonera
Jacksonian Era
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The political party that developed in opposition to Andrew Jackson | The Whig Party |
| The political party of Jackson's followers | The Democrat Party |
| Man who was elected president as part of the "Log Cabin Campaign" | William Henry Harrison |
| The bill that passed the highest tax ever on imports | The Tariff of Abominations |
| The man who became president when William Henry Harrison died | John Tyler |
| Group of informal advisers to Jackson | Kitchen Cabinet |
| President who ordered the final round up of the Cherokees and their forced deportation to reservations in Oklahoma | Martin Van Buren |
| The Supreme Court decision that said the Cherokee had the right to their own nation and laws | Worcester v. Georgia |
| Man who developed a Cherokee alphabet | Sequoya |
| Man who led Seminole uprising in Florida | Osceola |
| South Carolina's opposition to the tariff of 1828 provoked this controversy | Nullification Crisis |
| Principle that a president can appoint his political supporters to government job | Spoils System |
| Man who led South Carolina's fight against the tariff | John C. Calhoun |
| Wing of the Democratic party that fought for equal rights for | Loco Focos |
| Law that gave the president the authority to use the military to collect import duties. | Force Bill |
| Massachusetts Senator who spoke eloquently in Congress against the principle of nullification | Daniel Webster |
| Frenchman who toured America and wrote his impressions of Democracy in America | Alexis de Tocqueville |
| Supreme Court decision that allowed states to limit contracts granting monopolies | Charles River v. Warren Bridge |
| As Jackson's Secretary of the Treasury, he withdrew federal money from the Bank of the US and was later appointed Chief Justice | Roger B. Taney |
| Jackson vetoed this because he felt the Constitution did not allow the federal government to pay for state internal improvements | Maysville Road Bill |
| Settled Maine's border with Canada | Webster-Ashburton Treaty |