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Who was the U.S. president from 1829 - 1837? He was inaugurated on March 4th, 1829.
A) John Quincy Adams
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John C. Calhoun
What is, B) Andrew Jackson
The rights of the states to make decisions without interference from the federal government is called...
What is, States' Right
The idea, or the law, that states that a state had the right to nullify, or reject, a federal law that it considers unconstitutional is called...
What is, the Doctrine of Nullification
The 1824 presidential candidate favored by New Englanders. Monroe’s secretary of state.
A) John Quincy Adams
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Martin Van Buren
What is, A) John Quincy Adams
Was Jackson’s vice-president, who created the Doctrine of Nullification because he sympathized for the South Carolinians.
A) John Quincy Adams
B) Sequoya
C) John C. Calhoun
What is, C) John C. Calhoun
The area where Native Americans were moved covering what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska was called...
What is, Indian Territory
Was the forced removal of Cherokee from their homeland to the Indian Territory.
What is, the Trail of Tears
The practice of giving government jobs to political backers or people who support you, known as the...
What is, the Spoils System
Secede means...
What is, to withdraw
Was a brilliant Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language.
What is, Sequoya
Was a leader during the Second Seminole War, an important leader.
A) Osceola
B) Sequoya
C) John Tyler
What is, A) Osceola
Assimilate means...
What is, to be absorbed into a culture, specifically white.
What is literacy?
What is, the ability to read or write.
A law created in 1830 that called for the government to negotiate treaties requiring Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi.
What is, the Indian Removal Act
Who was the Whig Party presidential candidate in 1840 from Ohio?
A) John Tyler
B) John C. Calhoun
C) William Henry Harrison
What is, C) William Henry Harrison
Inflation is...
What is, an increase in prices and a decrease in the value of money.
The idea of widening political power to more of the people and ensuring majority rule. It looked out for the good of the “common man”, a type of democracy named...
What is, Jacksonian Democracy
1828 law that significantly raised tariffs (or taxes) on raw materials and manufactured goods.
What is, the Tariff of Abominations
William Henry Harrison’s running mate in the 1840 presidential election.
A) John Tyler
B) Osceola
C) William Henry Harrison
What is, A) John Tyler
Was elected as president in 1836 after serving as Jackson’s vice-president.
A) John Tyler
B) Martin Van Buren
C) William Henry Harrison
What is, B) Martin Van Buren
A political party that was formed by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Jackson opponents. They opposed the concentration of power in the chief executive, what was this party called?
What is, the Whig Party
What is a charter?
What is, a written grant that a bank needs from the federal government.
Free Point!
What is a Free Point!
What is a depression?
What is, a severe economic slump
Was the widespread fear about the state of the economy that spread after Martin Van Buren came into office, named...
What is, the Panic of 1837