The Age of Jackson
The election where no candidate had enough votes for presidency and Andrew Jackson declared this to be a what?..
Corrupt Bargain
Treaty that ceded land from the Native Americans to America
Treaty of New Echota
People who found economic success in the West by trapping animals like beavers and selling the fur to western markets.
Mountain Men
Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
Tejanos
A tax on imported goods from other countries.
Tariffs
Father of the Democratic Party
Andrew Jackson
Indian territory and the place the Indian Removal act sent the Natives to live.
Oklahoma
Florida made a constitution that allowed for slavery but then had to wait many years to become a state until another free state was able to apply.
Floridas Statehood
Expansionist president who used the slogan 54-40 or fight to help aid him in winning the election of 1844.
James K Polk
Was known as being a war hawk leading into the War of 1812
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson wanted more state power over national power and believed too much power in our county lay in the hands of the elite.
Jacksonian Democracy
A supreme court case that John Marshall ruled the Cherokee. Indians were evicted from their home land and made to travel the Trail of Tears.
Worcester VS Georgia
Why did people travel west?
Economic hardships, the ability to own land, the potential to find gold, job opportunities out west.
Polk tried to pay $30 million to Mexico to get Rio Grande as the border on his side. Mexico declined and Polk went into their land. Mexico sent troops to fight and Polk got congress to declare war on Mexico. What war did this start?
Origins of the Mexican American War
Was Jackson's successor and elected president in 1836.
Martin Van Buren
Jackson replaced all the bureaucrats with his own guys, and set a precedent for many presidents to come.
The Spoils System
The trail that many natives traveled on to get to the Indian Territory. The trail is called this because many were upset having to move.
Trail of Tears
God's given right to expand their land all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Manifest Destiny
Was responsible for bringing 300 American families over to Mexico.
Stephen F Austin
Term for using insults, malicious accusations, or scandalous attacks to damage people becoming president.
Mudsliging
Andrew Jackson did not agree with Calhoun's decision to nullify or cancel out the tariffs.
The Nullification Crisis
When Military forces were sent to escort the Seminoles out of Florida. They responded with fighting which lasted from 1840s to the 1850s
Seminole Wars
An agreement between the U.S and Spain that ceded Florida and the Oregon Country to America.
Adam Onis Treaty
BONUSSS: What is Bussy's full name?(hint: first name, middle name, last name)
Bussy Damarcus Oliveira-Coward-Curry
A general in the Mexican American war and used his success to launch a political campaign for winning the next election.
Zachary Taylor