Indian Removal Act
Nullification Crisis
Events
National Bank Debate
People
Terms
100

These were the first Native American peoples to be removed from their ancestral homelands to Indian Territory as a result of the Indian Removal Act

Choctaw

100

Just prior to the presidential election of 1828, Congress and President Adams passed a high tariff on these, which helped the Northern economy and hurt the Southern economy

Imports

100

By 1834, those who’d opposed President Jackson and his policies had increasingly joined this new political party, which was beginning to take shape

Whig Party

100

The Second Bank of the United States 20-year charter expired in this year (the charter became effective in 1816)

1836

100

One of Jackson’s main political foes, this U.S. Senator from Kentucky was defeated by Jackson in the presidential election of 1832 and would go on to help establish the Whig Party

Henry Clay

100

As president, Jackson relied a significant deal on a group of informal advisers who he’d often meet with in the kitchen of the White House and thus became known as this “cabinet”

“Kitchen Cabinet”

200

As part of the Indian Removal Act, Congress established Indian Territory in what's now this state, where many displaced Native Americans were forced to resettle

Oklahoma

200

This Southerner, who’d been serving during President Jackson’s first term as vice president, and then resigned and became a U.S. Senator during President Jackson’s second term, wrote an anonymous essay in which he argued that a state has the right to nullify any federal law it feels is unconstitutional

John C. Calhoun

200

After inviting the public to the inaugural ball at the White House, the much larger than expected crowd proceeded to become rowdy and destroyed White House furnishings and décor earning President Jackson this new nickname

“King Mob”

200

This individual was serving as the bank’s director when he publicly advocated a bill in Congress to renew the banks charter

Nicholas Biddle

200

Many of the Native American peoples of this tribe located in the southeast, felt that they may be able to remain in their ancestral homelands and avoid removal to Indian Territory if they adopted the contemporary culture of white people

Cherokee

200

The right to reject any federal law that a lower level of government believes is unconstitutional is known as this

Nullify / Nullification

300

The hundreds of miles that Native Americans were forced to march by foot from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory has been given this nickname

Trail of Tears

300

Deeply opposed to higher tariffs, the state legislature of this state passed the Nullification Act in which the state threatened to secede if the federal government were to use force to collect tariff duties

South Carolina

300

President Zachary Taylor unexpectedly passed away just days after attending a July 4th ceremony at this Washington D.C. monument which was under construction at that time

Washington Monument

300

With federal funds being deposited into state banks by President Jackson, state banks began offering loans with lower borrower requirements to Americans who’d likely not qualify for them otherwise which contributed to the rapid rise of this (the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time)

Inflation

300

A strong ally of President Jackson, he served as his Secretary of State during Jackson’s first term and vice president during his second – he’d go on to succeed Jackson as president in 1838

Martin Van Buren

300

President Jackson was accused by his political opponents of using this type of “system” after appointing some of his most loyal supporters to sought after positions in the federal government

“Spoils System”

400

In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee nation had been formally recognized by the U.S. government

Worcester v. Georgia

400

At the request of President Jackson, Congress passed this bill which authorized the president to use force to collect federal tariff duties in any state(s) that hadn’t been collecting them

Force Bill

400

Andrew Jackson became the seventh President of the United States after winning the presidential election in this year

1828

400

Allowing the charter of the national bank to expire played a key role in this ensuing economic depression which occurred shortly thereafter in 1837

Panic of 1837

400

As word spread of the hardships and struggles the Choctaw had endured during their removal to Indian Territory, people of this Native American tribe strongly resisted and approximately fourteen to fifteen thousand were captured and forced by the U.S. Army to march to Indian Territory, some in chains

Creek

400

This term, which describes a form of democracy in which the rights and policies of the common American are championed while also opposing any signs of aristocracy within the U.S. government, arose after Jackson won the presidency

“Jacksonian Democracy”

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