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Unit 7:
Unit 7: The Age of Jackson
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Where party members choose the party’s candidates? | Nominating Conventions |
| What is A period of expanding democracy, its ideas, and influences? | Jacksonian Democracy |
| What party formed to support Andrew Jackson’s candidacy? | The Democratic Party |
| What was The practice of giving government jobs to political backers? | The Spoils System |
| What was the informal group of trusted advisers who sometimes met in the White House kitchen called? | The Kitchen Cabinet |
| What two new political parties faced off in the election of 1828? | The Whig and Democratic Party |
| A tax Congress placed on Imports angering Southerners? | The Tariff of Abomination |
| What Said that since states had formed before the national government, state power should be greater than federal? | States Rigths Doctrine |
| Conflicts between supporters and opponents of nullification was considered the what? | Nullification Crisis |
| Who Argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among independent states? | Daniel Webster |
| The court decision that the national bank was constitutional? | McCulloch V Maryland |
| What party Favored the idea of a weak president and a strong congress? | The Whigs |
| A severe economic depression? | The Panic of 1837 |
| What year did Andrew Jackson become President? | 1828 |
| What was the era called where more white males could vote? | The Era of The Common Man |
| What were the two new political parties of the time period? | The Democratic Party and Republican Party |
| What did the Tariff of Abomination do? | Helped northern trade but hurt southern imports |
| How did having no national bank affect the United States? | This led to economic challenges and high inflation |
| What caused the Panic of 1837? | Jackson's policies and inflation |
| What is the principle of nullification? | States could nullify a federal law that they felt was unconstitutional. |
| What does secede mean? | to withdraw |
| What was Jackson's response to the threat of SC secession? | Created the FORCE Bill and was angered |
| How was the Nullification Crisis Resolved? | Henry Clay created a compromise that still had tariffs, but also allowed Jacksons FORCE Bill |
| This policy authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi to the West? | The Indian Removal Act |
| U.S. Land in what is now Oklahoma is called what during the 1800s? | Indian Territory |
| Why was the Bureau of Indian Affairs Created? | Created to manage Indian removal to western lands |
| Who created an 86 character language to represent Cherokee syllables? | Sequoya |
| What was the forced Cherokee march Called? | Trail of Tears |
| Why did government official want to relocate Native Americans? | Expansion, Farms, Gold, Resoucres |