Andrew Jackson
Court Case
The Spoils System
Trail of Tears
Ransom Info
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What number president was he?
7th president
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How did the Indians fight back?
Through the legal system
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Who supported the system?
The people that got jobs fom it
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Where were they forced to move?
Present day Oklahoma
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Name one of the five tribes that were affected?
Cherokee, Choctaw, Seninole, Creek, and Chickasaw
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What was his nickname?
"Old Hickory"
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Why did the chief of justice refuse to rule on the case?
He didn't think that they had any legal standing
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What percent of the people got fired by President Jackson?
10%
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Why was it called the Trail of Tears?
Because of its devistating effects
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Jackon owned slaves, True or False
True
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Why was he a two-faced person about the removal act?
Because he adopted a Cherokee child but he still wanted them to be removed
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Who did the Cherokee team up with?
A missionary
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Who replaced the former employees?
Friends and supporters of Jackson
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How many Native Americans died on this trek?
1/3 or 4,000
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Jackson had a Cherokee wife, True or Flase?
False. He had a Cherokee child
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What did he think of the Indians?
They were children and needed to be taught
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What was the courts decision on the case?
They ruled that the Natives could stay
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What were his primary advisors called?
Kitchen Cabinet
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How did they die?
Hunger, disease, and exhaustion
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What Jackson claim the act would do?
Protect Indians from further removal from their land
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What was the era called from 1830-1850?
Jacksonian Democracy
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Who did the Cherokee hire to help them?
William Wirt
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Why were they called the "Kitchen Cabinet"?
They slipped into the White House through the kitchen
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How many acres were opened by the removal?
25 million
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Why did people support the act?
Because they wanted the land that the Natives occupied
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