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Chapter 14: Andrew Jackson & the Growth of American Democracy

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Old Hickory   Andrew Jackson's nickname  
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John Quincy Adams   won the election of 1824 by a House of Representatives vote  
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Democratic Party   political party started by Jackson and his supporters; represented ordinary farmers, workers, and the poor  
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Election of 1828   Andrew Jackson's supporters campaign around the country and help him win the presidential election  
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Jacksonian Democracy   the idea that common people should control the government  
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people eligible to vote before 1820s   white men who owned property  
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spoils system   the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs  
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tariff   a tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country  
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secede   to withdraw from an organization or alliance  
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South Carolina   state that was furious about the new law that raised tariffs and threatened to secede from the Union  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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Jackson's policy regarding Native Americans   had zero sympathy for them and forcibly removed them from their tribal lands through the Indian Removal Act  
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Five Civilized Tribes   Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole  
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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  
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Trail of Tears   the removal of Cherokee from Georgia to Native Territory in 1838-1839  
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Battle of New Orleans   event during War of 1812 that propelled Jackson into the national spotlight as a war hero  
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candidates for President during the Election of 1824   Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William Crawford, and John Q. Adams  
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white men with property   until the 1820s, only this group of people were allowed to vote  
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