Pre-Jackson
This election had no candidate win a majority, requiring a tiebreaker vote by the House of Representatives.
What is the Election of 1824?
The Election of 1828 elected this person to the presidency and created this political party.
Who is Andrew Jackson and the Democrat Party?
Opponents of the Tariff of 1828 gave it this nickname, arguing that it unfairly harmed the South while benefiting the North.
What is the Tariff of Abominations?
This is the name given to the forced march of the native tribes across the United States.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This president of the Second Bank of the United States fought Jackson’s efforts to dismantle the bank.
Who is Nicholas Biddle?
This alleged agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay was criticized by Jackson as a "Corrupt Bargain".
What is Adams became President and Clay became his Secretary of State?
The elimination of this requirement tripled the number of voters between 1824 and 1828.
What is needing property in order to vote?
This Kentucky senator helped broker the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which gradually lowered tariff rates and defused the crisis.
Who is Henry Clay?
This is the reason why white settlers began moving into Indian lands.
What is gold and fertile soil?
This major economic crisis, occurring shortly after Jackson left office, led to widespread bank failures and unemployment.
What is the Panic of 1837?
What are poor people in the West and South?
Jackson implemented this idea to staff the Federal government.
What is the "Spoils System"?
The Nullification Crisis foreshadowed this event in American history for this reason.
What is the Civil War, because it saw the South threaten to go to war over resisting Federal Law?
This act was passed by Congress in 1830 and gave Jackson the authority to do this.
What is the Indian Removal Act, which allowed Jackson to trade Native lands in the East with land West of the Mississippi?
Jackson convinced the people to oppose the bank by giving these three reasons.
What are Oppressing the Poor, Restricting the printing of money, and supporting Anti-Jackson politicians?
John Quincy Adams pursued these ambitious policies as president (name at least one).
What are new roads, canals, and railroads; a National University and Observatory; High tariffs and and land prices; Assimilation of Native Americans into American society?
The new democratic movement opened up these new styles of campaigning.
What are rallies, posters, slogans, and songs?
This is the definition of Nullification.
What is when a state declares a Federal Law unconstitutional, and decides not to follow it?
The Cherokee Tribe took this action in response to the Indian Removal Act.
What is went to the Supreme Court (Worcester v. Georgia)?
In order to destroy the power of the bank, Jackson did this with federal deposits (funds).
What is moved them to his "Pet Banks" (banks owned by his friends and loyalists)?
John Quincy Adams was unable to get much done in his presidency for these two reasons.
What are his unpopularity in Congress and accusations of corruption?
What is replacing Federal employees with friends, supporters, and loyalists?
In response to South Carolina’s defiance, Andrew Jackson pushed for this bill, which did this.
What is the Force Act, which gave Jackson the power to enforce Federal Law using the military?
This treaty passed the Senate by a single vote and officially took Cherokee Territory.
What is the Treaty of New Echota (1835)?
One major cause of the Panic of 1837 was Jackson’s issuance of this order, which mandated this.
What is the Specie Circular, which forced all land sales to be in gold and silver?