Vocab
Episode I: The Phantom Monroe
Episode II: Attack of the Jackson
Episode III: Revenge of the Economy
Episode IV: A New Party
100
The main Native American nation in Florida from the 1700s to today.
The Seminole
100
Jackson's predecessor (#6)
John Quincy Adams
100
Jackson's vice president, who was elected after him!
Martin Van Buren
200
When you reward political backers with government positions -- you are the president now, after all!
Spoils system
200
This US invasion (featuring General Andrew Jackson!) caused Spain to realize it couldn't hold on to Florida.
First Seminole War
200
Jackson created this political party:
The Democrats
200
Result of the closure of the 2nd Bank of the US:
Panic of 1837
200
A brand new party (in 1834) to oppose Jackson!
The Whigs
300
Treaty that gave Florida to the US as a territory.
Adams-Onis Treaty, 1819
300
This tax nearly provoked South Carolina to secede from the US; at least until Jackson threatened to send in federal troops.
The "Tariff of Abominations"
300
Jackson wanted to get rid of this financial institution:
the 2nd Bank of the US
300
William Henry Harrison's campaign in 1840 to look just like Jackson -- despite being from a different party!
Log Cabin Campaign
400
Established the federal government DOES have implied powers (John Marshall at it again...)
McCulloch v. Maryland
400
Explain the Missouri Compromise.
1. Needed a balance of free and slave states
2. Missouri admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state
3. Territories divided between slave and free in a line below Missouri.
400
This change in voting laws allowed Jackson (as a populist candidate) to win by a landslide in 1828:
All white men could vote (not just those with property)
400
This was the biggest motivation for the Indian Removal Act:
Needed more land for cotton plantations
400
Harrison's nickname (______ and Tyler too!)
Tippecanoe
500
2 Supreme Court cases in which the Court ruled against a state attempting to remove Native Americans -- only the federal government can do that (says John Marshall, a not-so-secret Federalist making the federal government more powerful)
Cherokee v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia
500
Explain the Monroe Doctrine.
1. US stays out of European wars
2. US leaves existing colonies alone
3. Europeans stop making colonies (in the Americas, at any rate)
500
Explain the corrupt bargain conspiracy.
1. No majority of electoral votes in 1824, goes to the House
2. Supposedly, Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams make a deal to give Adams the presidency.
3. In return, Clay gets the Secretary of State position.
4. Jackson, who got the most votes the first time, was left out, and he got REAL mad.
500
Explain how the government's actions caused suffering on the Trail of Tears.
1. Soldiers forced people from their homes
2. Fighting (2nd Sem. War)
3. Deaths from exposure, disease, and starvation
4. New land already inhabited
500
Explain the problems with the Whigs' first time getting the presidency.
1. Harrison died
2. Tyler was a Southern Democrat, and vetoed Whig bills