Jackson's 1st Term
Jackson's policy of rotating office holders with loyal supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
Educational establishment John Quincy Adams wanted to establish in Washington D.C.
What is the National University?
The running mate of Andrew Jackson during this election.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Violent slave uprising in 1831 Virginia reflecting resistance to slavery and prompting harsher laws in the South.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
Leading figure of Transcendentalism who was a writer. Promoted self-realization, individual freedom, and the idea of a mystical union without nature.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emereson?
1830 act which authorized the Removal of Native tribes west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
John Quincy Adams was the last of this kind of president.
What is a Notable president?
Henry Clay's economic program which desired more tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank.
An organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Weld to promote immediate abolition and racial equality.
What is the American Anti-Slavery Society?
Transcendentalist writer and feminist who advocated for women's intellectual and social independence.
Who is Margaret Fuller?
South Carolina's attempt to invalidate federal tariffs (1828 & 1832) created this crisis.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Claim by Jacksonians that Adam's alleged deal with Henry Clay in the 1824 election was corrupt and illegitimate.
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
Nickname for the extremely high tariff passed in 1828 which enraged the South because of its increased costs on manufactured goods.
What is the Tariff of Abominations
Informal network of abolitionists and free Blacks that helped enslaved people escape to free states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Network of public lecture forums in the North and Midwest allowing thinkers like Emerson to spread transcendentalist ideas to the emerging middle class.
What is the Lyceum Movement?
Jackson's unofficial group of advisers used instead of his formal cabinet.
What is the Kitchen Cabinet?
Tariff supported by John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay which raised duties on woolens, cottons, and some iron goods to protect New England and Pennsylvania manufacturers.
What is the Tariff of 1824?
Name adopted by Jackson's supporters to emphasize their commitment to egalitarianism and political equality.
What is The Democracy?
A radical 1829 pamphlet calling for immediate emancipation and warning that African Americans would revolt if denied freedom.
What is David Walker's Appeal?
Transcendentalist communal experiment near Boston where intellectuals, writers, and reformers tried to live in harmony with nature.
What is Brook Farm?
What is the Bank War?
Group which repudiated the 1828 treaties US commissioners secured from a faction of Creeks ceding Georgia lands.
What is the Creek National Council?
Nickname by Jacksonians for Jackson because he was a self-made man and a "natural" aristocrat.
First anti-slavery American political party founded in 1849 after the split in the American Anti-Slavery Society over women's rights?
What is the Liberty Party?
Who is Henry David Thoreau?