Jackson
A practice that Jackson used to put his supporters in government positions - regardless of whether or not they were qualified.
The Spoils System
What State threatened to secede from the Union during the Nullification Crisis?
South Carolina
What modern day state was Indian Territory (where the federal government sent native people after removing them from their land)?
Oklahoma
Who was the Oglala Sioux chief who started a war against the US?
Crazy Horse
Which trail was the main one settlers used for Western Expansion
The Oregon Trail
What did people call Jacksons unofficial group of advisors?
The Kitchen Cabinet
_____ was Jacksons Vice President who hailed from South Carolina and resigned his position due to the Nullification Crisis
John C Calhoun
Which tribe was the first one to be forcibly removed (14,500 of whom were forced to walk in chains to Indian Territory)?
The Choctaw.
What was the first Major treaty with the Plains Indians?
Which explorer wanted to find the terminus of the red river?
Zebulon Pike
What two political parties came into existence after Jackson left the Democratic-Republicans?
The Whigs and the Democrats
What caused the Nullification Crisis?
The Tariff of 1828 - known as the Tariff of Abominations
Which tribe sought to fight Indian Removal through the court system?
The Cherokee
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended what war AND how much did it expand the size of the US by?
Mexican American. Over 25%.
Which trail was used primarily by merchants who wanted to trade with Mexico and the Spanish?
Santa Fe Trail
What battle did Jackson fight in the War of 1812 that made him famous?
The Battle of New Orleans
Why did Jackson not want to admit Texas as a state right away?
What court case established the Cherokee nation as a distinct community that was not bound by the laws of Georgia?
Worcester v. Georgia
What was the Battle at the Alamo and why did it inspire Texans to fight in the independence war?
A battle between 200 volunteers and Texans at a mission against thousands of Mexican soldiers. Held out for weeks before being overtaken. Mexico executed almost all of the troops.
Which Explores charted most of the Louisiana purchase area and made it all the way to the Pacific Coast?
Lewis and Clark
Jackson expanded voting rights for who?
White men who did not own land.
What was the Corrupt Bargain?
What Jackson called the Election of 1824 after he lost to John Quincy Adams.
Jackson won the popular vote but not the electoral vote. Election was decided by the House. Adams convinced Henry Clay to win him votes in exchange for being Secretary of State.
What was Andrew Jackson referring too when he says "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it"
That the supreme court did not have a way to stop Jackson or Georgia from doing what they wished - despite it being against the decision.
What were the impacts of the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887?
Made land ownership private, promised citizenship to native Americans, sold 2/3rds of Indian land to white settlers.
What is Manifest destiny?
The idea that the United States was destined, and had the divine right, to expand across North America.