Presidents
A President only served for 32 days?
William Henry Harrison
Define mudslinging
a method in election campaigns that uses gossip, lies and personal attacks to make an opponent look bad
Worcester v. Georgia
Cherokee response to the Indian Removal Act - sued Georgia, Chief Marshall ruled in their favor, Jackson ignored it!
Describe the hardships of the Trail of Tears.
Key points: forced removal of 15,000 Cherokee, crowded in camps, forced to march, illness broke out and 2,000 died, Cherokee suffered from hunger and harsh weather leading to the deaths of 2,000 more people, one quarter of the population was dead when it was over
What killed William Henry Harrison?
He refused to wear a coat during inauguration and then died of pneumonia.
This President passed the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
After a lot of mudslinging between Adams and Jackson, who won the election of 1828?
Andrew Jackson
Law passed by Martin Van Buren to help prevent further bank crisis and keep the government money in the federal treasury.
Federal Treasury Law
In Worcester v. Georgia, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that the state of Georgia did not have the right to interfere with the Cherokee. Describe Jackson's reaction.
He ignored it and continued with the relocation of them to Oklahoma.
Respose of the Cherokee to General Winfield Scott's use of the army to force the tribes out west.
The Cherokee leaders gave in and eventually traveled on the Trail of Tears
John Tyler
A new politcal party that emerged after Jackson's presidency ended.
Whig
Act that allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to move out west to territory mostly located in present day Oklahoma.
Indian Removal Act
The Dade Massacre, in which all but a few American soldiers were killed, was the result of which conflict?
The Seminole Wars
The two tribes that resisted the Indian Removal Act the most.
Cherokee and Seminole
William Henry Harrison's political party.
Whig
The idea that the government should interfere as little as possible in the nations economy.
Laissez-faire
The reason president Jackson did not like the Second National Bank and refused to sign a chater to renew it.
He felt it was a monpoly that only helped those who were rich
Outcome of the Seminole Wars for the Seminoles.
The Seminoles were the only tribe who had groups who stayed behind and resisted removal.
The action that Tyler refused to do that eventually led him to being kicked out of the Whig part.
Sign for a charter of the Second National Bank
This President was elected with the Whigs, but had democratic views and refused to renew the national bank, so he was expelled from the Whig Party.
John Tyler
Won the election of 1836 and enforced the Trail of Tears.
Martin Van Buren
Although initially running for vice president under the Whig party, Tyler held strongly with original democratic views. What consequences did this have for him AND the Whig party?
He didn't agree with the Whig on renewing the bank charter. Because this was one of the Whig's main beliefs, members of his cabinet resigned and he was kicked out of the party. The Whig's party was only united in their dislike for the Democratic Party and therefore struggled to agree on many things. This eventually led to the formation of the Republican Party.
Effects on the country of the Panic of 1837.
The panic led to a depression, inflation rates rose, and paper banknotes lost their worth. Thousand of business closed, workers lost their jobs, people struggled to pay for food and rent.
List the Five Civilized Tribes
Creek, Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw