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Jude 7th- Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Andrew Jackson & the Growth of American Democracy
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson's nickname |
| John Quincy Adams | won the election of 1824 by a House of Representatives vote |
| Democratic Party | political party started by Jackson and his supporters; represented ordinary farmers, workers, and the poor |
| Election of 1828 | Andrew Jackson's supporters campaign around the country and help him win the presidential election |
| Jacksonian Democracy | the idea that common people should control the government |
| people eligible to vote before 1820s | white men who owned property |
| spoils system | the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs |
| tariff | a tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country |
| secede | to withdraw from an organization or alliance |
| South Carolina | state that was furious about the new law that raised tariffs and threatened to secede from the Union |
| Jackson's opinion of the national bank | believed it benefited only the rich and stood in the way of opportunity for capitalists in the west |
| Jackson's actions against the national bank | vetoes its renewal charter and starves it to death by ordering the removal of all federal deposits & has them put into state banks |
| Jackson's opinion of the spoils system | rotating people in office was more democratic than lifetime service because it gave more people a chance to serve their government |
| Jackson's policy regarding Native Americans | had zero sympathy for them and forcibly removed them from their tribal lands through the Indian Removal Act |
| Five Civilized Tribes | Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole |
| Indian Removal Act | law that allowed the president to make treaties in which Natives in the East traded their lands for new territory in the Great Plaines |
| Trail of Tears | the removal of Cherokee from Georgia to Native Territory in 1838-1839 |
| Battle of New Orleans | event during War of 1812 that propelled Jackson into the national spotlight as a war hero |
| candidates for President during the Election of 1824 | Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and John Q. Adams |
| white men with property | until the 1820s, only this group of people were allowed to vote |
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