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mrs t's 6.1 -6.3 Andrew Jackson
Question | Answer |
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This party got its strongest support from the South and the West, wanted more power for the ordinary white man | democratic party |
This party got its strongest support from the Northeast, wanted the Federal government to promote business with roads and canals | Whig party |
Giving supporters government jobs refers to | spoils system |
Who was the champion of the common man, also called Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson |
Who supported tariffs, and government spending for canals and roads for businesses | John Quincy Adams |
This was the forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia to present day Oklahoma | The Trail of Tears |
The Supreme Court case that ruled that Georgia had no right to enforce its laws within Cherokee territory was | Worchester vs Georgia |
The eighth president of the USA, after he was elected the United States went into a financial panic | Martin Van Buren |
This was passed by North Carolina that declared the tariff of 1832 illegal. | the Nullification Act |
An often private political meeting is a | Caucus |
Passed in 1830, allowed the government to give land in present day Oklahoma to Native Americans in exchange for their lands in the east | Indian Removal Act |
A defining characteristic of the Jackson Era was | Westward Expansion |
The election of 1824, with the "corrupt bargain", marked the beginning of what? | The Second Party System |
Andrew Jackson's political party was known as the | Democratic party |
Andrew Jackson had been depicted as "King Andrew the First" because of his | Desire to establish a strong executive branch |
Why was Andrew Jackson not popular among aristocratic easterners | Because he was considered to be vulgar and common |
What was "patronage" as related to Andrew Jackson in the Jacksonian Era | giving government jobs to those who supported the governing party |
During the Jacksonian Era suffrage was extended to | almost all white males |
The Nullification Act of 1832 declared that | Individual states did NOT have to obey federal laws |
When Jackson decided to remove elected officials from the opposing party and replace them with his supporters, Jackson introduced the | Spoils System |
The Tariff of 1828 was not beneficial to the plantations in the South, and southern leaders began calling the bill the | Tariff of Abominations |
Although President Jackson attempted to reduce taxes through the Tariff of 1832, protest by leaders in South Carolina led to the | Nullification Crisis |
The Cherokees resisted the Indian Removal Act by | sending a delegation to Washington, DC. |
The Trail of Tears moved the Native Americans where | West of the Mississippi to present day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas |
In 1832, why did John C. Calhoun threaten President Andrew Jackson with the possibility of South Carolina's secession from the United States | Because Jackson signed the high protective tariffs into law |
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized President Jackson to | Negotiate treaties to relocate Native American tribes to west of the Mississippi |
Why did the government of Georgia remove the Cherokee people from the state | the need for land on which cotton could be grown |