President Andrew Jackson
What is the Spoils System?
What is Jackson's practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs in the Executive Branch?
What is the Tariff of Abomination?
The nickname Southern states called the 1828 Tariff Law which raised taxes on imported goods?
Who is the wealthy and highly educated president of the Bank of the U.S.?
Nicholas Biddle
Who are the 5 Native American tribes who had learned and adopted many white man's ways?
The "Five Civilized Tribes": Creek Cherokee Chickasaw Choctaw Seminole
Who is America's first frontier president?
Andrew Jackson?
What is the voter qualification to elect the President in 1828 which led to more than three times as many who voted in the 1824 election?
White Males
Who is Jackson's Vice-President who called upon southern states to declare the tariff "null and void", or illegal?
John C. Calhoun
What group of people did Jackson think that the Bank of the U.S. benefited the most?
Rich eastern and northern investors
Who is the Cherokee Indian who developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language?
Sequoyah
What is the nickname given to President Jackson by his enemies because they saw him as a president hoping to become a king?
"King"
What is the group of men that voted for Andrew Jackson as President because they felt that Jackson was a man like them?
Common Man
What is the act of withdrawing from the United States or breaking away from the union of states belonging to the U.S.?
secede
What did President Jackson use to keep Congress from rechartering the Bank of the U.S.?
Veto power
What is the law that allowed the President to make treaties with Native Americans in the East in order to trade their lands for new lands on the western Great Plains?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Who was the president after Jackson who continued Jackson's Indian Removal Policy and carried out the forced "Trail of Tears" march of the Cherokee?
President Martin Van Buren
What is the ceremony called where the President takes his oath of office?
Inauguration
What is the belief that states have the right to nullify, or reject, federal laws if they feel it is unconstitutional?
State's Rights
What nickname was given to the state banks where Jackson had the federal deposits from the Bank of the U.S. placed into?
Pet banks
What is the forced removal of over 17,000 Cherokee from Georgia across the Mississippi River to the western lands?
Trail of Tears
Who is the hero of the Battle of New Orleans?
Andrew Jackson
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
What is the group of Jackson's trusted friends and supporters called who met with him in the White House kitchen to advise him on matters of national importance?
What is the law passed by Congress to lower the tariff amount to satisfy the southerners in hopes to keep them from seceding and causing bloodshed?
Compromise tariff law
Who pushed a bill through Congress to renew the Bank's charter four years earlier in order hurt Jackson's chances for reelection as President?
Henry Clay
Who is the chief who led the Sac and Fox tribes of Illinois to fight again their removal from their homelands?
Chief Black Hawk
Who are the main supporters of President Jackson?
Farmers and Workers