Election of 1824
He won the popular vote of the 1824 presidential election.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Who were the main founders of the Whig Party?
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.
This vocabulary term was an attempt by cooperative communities to improve life in the face of increasing industrialism.
Utopia
A slave in Virginia who staged a bloody revolt.
Who was Nat Turner?
This political party held all of the candidates for the election.
What were the Democratic-Republicans?
This was a political leader who worked his way up to the top from the bottom.
What was the “Common man?”
This man was the main reason for the creation of the Whig Party and the party was majorly against his policies.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
A term used to describe a millennial group who believed in both Jesus and a mystic named Ann Lee.
Who were Shakers?
This was an informal network of whites and free blacks in Richmond, Charleston, and other southern towns that assisted fugitives.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This body would officially chose the president of the United States.
Who was the The House of Representatives?
General Winfield Scott marched 14,000 Cherokees 1,200 miles.
What was the Trial of Tears?
This was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s.
What was the Panic of 1837?
An evangelical Protestant movement of the 1830s that attracted thousands of New Englanders who had migrated to New York and Ohio.
What was Perfectionism?
This rule prevented antislavery petitions from being read, discussed, or debated on the House floor.
What was the gag rule?
Which tax was implemented to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing.
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
How many terms did Andrew Jackson serve as president?
Andrew Jackson served 2 terms.
This was an executive order that required the Treasury Department to accept only gold and silver in payments for land in the national domain.
What was the Specie Circular?
This man published the Book of Mormon and organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Who was Joseph Smith?
The racial mixing and intermarriage that Garrison seemed to support by holding meetings of blacks and whites of both sexes.
What was amalgamation?
This helped the House of Representatives choose Adams rather than Jackson.
What was the corrupt bargain?
When Jackson became president he fired several government workers and hired his loyal friends instead
What is spoils system?
This man was a member of the Democratic Party and against the Whig candidates in the election of 1836. Also, he was Jackson's handpicked successor.
Who was Martin Van Buren?
What is the new theatrical entertainment in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism?
Minstrelsy
This was the name of the pamphlet that David Walker published in response to the attacks on him.
An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World