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history jackson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend? | March 27, 1814, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson's superior numbers and weapons and they demolished the Creek defenses, Jacksons team slaughtered more than 800 warriors and imprisoned 500 women and children. |
| Why was the Battle of New Orleans significant? | In 1815, Andrew Jackson led a small and poorly equipped army to victory against 8,000 British troops at the Battle of New Orleans. |
| Effects of the War of 1812 | During the War of 1812 Andrew Jackson led his troops through enemy territory to victory in several tide-turning battles. |
| Nationalism | Nationalism An idea that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests. Basically patriotism. |
| Sectionalism | Sectionalism is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. |
| Economic interests of each region (West, South, Northeast) | W: Gateway cities and the exchanging of raw materials such as crops, minerals, and animal skins S: Was still mostly agricultural, mainly cotton, most demanded crop NE: (New England) had many wealthy merchants who built water-powered textile mills |
| Henry Clay | Statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. He supported John Quincy Adams and not Andrew Jackson in the election of 1824. Started the idea of the Missouri Compromise and the American system. |
| The American System | This was Henry Clay's idea, this idea consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other (infrastructure) |
| The Missouri Compromise | This made Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, not to upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation. It outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory. |
| How did American government / political participation change under the Jackson administration? | Suffrage was expanded as property and other restrictions on voting were reduced or abandoned in most states. In Jackson’s 1830 and 1831 annual messages, Jackson restated his opposition to the Bank, but the congress refused this idea. |
| Jacksonian Democracy | Was a political philosophy in the United States that expanded suffrage to most white men over the age of 21, and restructured a number of federal institutions. |
| The Common Man | Jackson was seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man, he thought that America should be mainly the everyday, working class man – not a wealthy landowner or man of power like a politician. |
| Spoils System | is the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters |
| Assimilate | is to absorb into the system or to absorb into the cultural tradition of a population or group. |
| 5 Civilized Tribes | Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles |
| Sequoya’s contributions | created the Cherokee Syllabary, a written form of the Cherokee language |
| Why did a majority of southern Americans favor Indian removal? | They were eager to expand southward. And the future of the country's economy with the later introduction of cotton production in the south |
| Indian Removal Act | On May 28, 1830 Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act this authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders |
| Cherokee response to Indian Removal | led by Chief John Ross, they resisted the Indian Removal Act, even in the face of assaults on its sovereign rights by the state of Georgia and violence against Cherokee people. |
| Worcester vs Georgia | was a landmark case where the United States Supreme Court vacated the conv. of Samuel W. and held that the GA criminal statute that stopped non-Native Americans from being present on Native American lands w/o a license from the state was unconstitutional |
| Trail of Tears | The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. |
| Conflicts between Andrew Jackson and vice president John C. Calhoun | Calhoun and Jackson held separate views on many issues, including states' rights. John C. Calhoun was mainly over states' rights |
| Tariff of abominations | this sought to protect N and W agricultural products from competition with foreign imports, however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the S and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists. |
| Nullification / States’ Rights | Nullification is the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional |
| Jackson vs the Bank of the US - What was Jackson upset about? | The bank's creation of a privileged class of Americans with too much money and political power. |
| The Bank War | was a political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The affair resulted in the shutdown of the Bank and its replacement by state banks also called “Pet Banks” |
| Panic of 1837 | was a financial crisis in the United States that started off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down, westward expansion was stalled, unemployment went up. |
| Who founded Whig Party? | People who opposed jackson |
| Why was it founded? | to bring together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson |
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