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Age of Jackson Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Common Man | average person who the common American people support. |
Whigs | political group who split from the Democratic- Republicans that opposed Jackson’s policies. They supported States rights and Clay's American system. |
Spoils System | the practice of handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate’s supporters. |
Indian Removal Act | 1830 government given power to relocate Native Americans from east to west of the Mississippi River. |
Trail of Tears | thousands of Natives died from cold, starvation and disease along the 800-mile journey |
Relocate | to move to another place |
Worcester v. Georgia | Cherokee nation sued Georgia to keep their lands and won, but were removed by Jackson anyway |
Nullification Crisis | South Carolina threatened to nullify or cancel federal law and succeed for the US. |
Jackson Democracy | Idea that as many people as possible should be allowed to vote. |
McCulloch v. Maryland | Maryland wanted to tax its branch of the national bank. States cannot claim to have power over the federal government. Federal government is upheld as the supreme law of the land |
Gibbons v. Ogden | Steamship operators fought over shipping rights on the Hudson River in both New York and New Jersey. Only the federal government has the power to regulate interstate commerce. Federal government’s power reinforced |