Jackson
Politics
Decisions
Indians
100

a severe economic depression caused by Jackson's banking policies and his unsuccesful plan to curb inflation

Panic of 1837

100

An informal group of trusted advisers who sometimes met with the President

Kitchen Cabinet

100

The court ruling that declared that the national bank was constitutional

McCulloh v Maryland

100

U.S. land in what is now Oklahoma, and planned to move Native Americans there.

Indian Territory:

200

the period of expanding democracy in the 1820's and 1830's later became known as this

Jacksonian Democracy

200

where party members choose the party's candidates

nomitating conventions

200

Group which favored the idea of a weak president and a strong Congress

Whig Party

200

The president who was in favor of gathering the indians together and moving them west.

President Andrew Jackson

300

Andrew Jackson's vice presidential running mate

John C. Calhoun

300

this said that since the states had formed the national government, state power should be greater than federal power

states' rights doctrine

300

This Court decision ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which laws of Georgia had no force

Worcester v Georgia

300

A Cherokee who used 86 characters to represent the Cherokee syllables to create a writing system for their own complex language

Sequoya

400

Jackson supporters were determined that their candidates would win the 1828 election. they formed this to support Jackson's canidancy

Democratic Party

400

Conflicts between the supporters and the opponents of nullifacation deepened. This dispute became known as this

nullification crisis:

400

in order to manage Indian removal to the western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency known as this

Bureau of INdian Affairs

400

a leader of Fox and Sauk indians who led his people in a struggle to protect their lands in Illinois

Chief Black Hawk

500

Seccretary of State who was one of Jackson's strongest allies in his official cabinet

Martin Van Buren

500

A senator from Massachusettes who argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among independent states

Daniel Webster

500

in 1830, Congress passed this which authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West

Indian Removal Act

500

The Cherokee's 800 mile forced march became known as this

Trail of Tears

600

Before Andrew Jackson took office, Congress placed a high tariff on imports. Angry Southerners called it this

Tariff of Abonimations

600

a candidate who was an army general and he won an electoral landslide

William Henry Harrison

600

The pack that preceeded the US Constitution which held the states together.

Articles of Confederation

600

A leader who called upon his people to resist with force, which was when the Second Senimole War Began

Osceola