The Executive Office
John Quincy Adams defeated this candidate in the controversial election of 1824.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This group of people was forcibly relocated by means of the "Trail of Tears."
Who were the Cherokee?
The Monroe Doctrine aimed to free this area from European influence.
What is the Western Hemisphere?
The development of this led to a sharp rise in the number of slaves imported to the southern United States.
What is the cotton gin?
The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 settled boundaries between these two countries.
What are Spain and the United States?
This president began the practice of replacing high-ranking members of the executive branch when a new president takes office.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This is the name given to some Native American peoples in the Southeast who had adopted aspects of European culture.
What are the five civilized tribes?
This was responsible for the United States acquiring Florida.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The first successful steamboat was designed and built by this person.
Who was Robert Fulton?
The 1828 “Tariff of Abominations” was given that name by those who thought the tariff hurt the South while helping this group.
Who were the Northern manufacturers.
This Whig candidate defeated Martin Van Buren for president by depicting himself as a man of the people.
Who was William Henry Harrison?
Under this law, passed in 1830, the federal government funded negotiation of treaties that would force the Native Americans to move west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This was the policy by which a newly elected president replaced high-ranking members of the executive branch with his own appointees.
What is the spoils system?
Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal connected the Atlantic Ocean with this.
What are the Great Lakes?
This party, formed in 1834, supported protective tariffs and a federal banking system.
What is the Whig Party?
As Andrew Jackson's first vice-president, this person publicly disagreed with him on the subject of states' rights.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This Native American devised the Cherokee alphabet in 1821 to help preserve the culture of the Cherokee Nation against the growing threat of American expansion.
Who was Sequoyah, or George Guess?
As part of the Missouri Compromise, this was admitted to the Union as a free state.
What is Maine?
This social and economic reorganization took place as machines replaced hand tools and caused large-scale factory production to develop.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
In January 1830, the Senate listened to Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina debate with this senator of Massachusetts over a tariff and the underlying states' rights issue.
Who was Daniel Webster?
Andrew Jackson's "pet banks" contributed to this by printing paper money that was not backed up by gold or silver.
What is the Panic of 1837?
In this case, the Cherokee Nation finally won recognition as a distinct political community, and Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands.
What is Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?
In 1832, this state declared a series of tariffs unconstitutional and threatened to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Construction of this began in 1811, and by 1838 it extended from Cumberland, Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois.
What is the National Road?
The Whig Party referred to this president, from their own party, as "His Accidency."
Who was John Tyler?