Vocabulary
private meeting in which candidates are chosen. This system was seen as undemocratic because only a few powerful people were able to take part in it
Caucus
This was a "man of the people" or the "common man"
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson led this political party to victory in 1828 and 1832
Democrats
The practice of rewarding people who support you but are not qualified for the job
Spoils system
True or False: women and Native Americans were granted the right to vote in the 1820's
False
the right to vote
suffrage
This person won the election of 1824
John Adams
This party formed out of the Federalist party
The Whig party
Why did Jackson hate the bank?
He claimed it only favored the wealthy (Northeast)
This Native American tribe was forced to move west in the Trail of Tears.
Cherokee
1830 US Congress passed this laws which forced many
Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River (trans-Mississippi)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
This person ran against Jackson in 1832. Was also the Speaker of the House that voted him down back in 1824
Henry Clay.
the disappearance of this political party temporarily ended party differences
Federalists
How did the Tariff of 1832 affect southern planters?
It forced them to rely on the North for goods.
Native American leader who created a written alphabet
Sequoyah
a belief promoted by Vice President John C.Calhoun that claimed a state had the right to cancel a federal law that it considered to be unconstitutional
Nullification
President of the Bank of the US
Nicholas Biddle
Martin Van Buren who ran and won in 1836 was head over this political party
Democrats
Daniel Webster
President William Henry Harrison's Vice President and soon to be President after Harrison died on pneumonia
John Tyler
1828, Congress passed the highest tariff in the nation's
history. Southerners, who were hurt by this tariff, gave this tariff its name because it increased the prices of the European manufactured goods they bought
Tariff of Abominations
Secretary of Treasury that put federal money in state banks
Roger Taney
William Henry Harrison ran for this political party in the election of 1840.
Whigs
This court case declared Georgia's actions unconstitutional and stated that Native Americans were protected by the US Constitution
Worcester vs Georgia
Seminole Chief who fought against the US army
Chief Osceola