Political Parties
This party descended from the Federalists and instilled pro-business and national growth?
What is the Whig Party?
A former U.S. President served as a minister to both Russia and Great Britain?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Act passed by Andrew Jackson expanded territory of Americans and to caused Indians to move farther West?
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Leader of the slave rebellion that killed 55 White Men?
Who is Nat Tuner?
Indians tried to divert this ct by assimilating into Western/European society
What is the Cherokee v. Georgia (1831)?
The party that combined the ideals of the Whig and Free Soil party
What is the Republican Party?
The "Hero" of the War of 1812
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A system where two parties dominate the executive and legislative elections
What is the Two-Party system?
The Supreme Court Justice that ruled that Black could not be Citizens
Who is Roger Taney?
The court case in which the Cherokee Indian tribe were given federal protection from abrasive state governments
What is Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?
A political party advocated federal aid for internal improvements and urged free government homesteads for settlers.
Who are the Free Soil party?
A president who stated, "political parties are necessary to keep check on the government" and opposed the Whig Party.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
Allowed Texas to become a state after the Mexican-American War.
What is the Texas Annexation?
Vice President under Andrew Jackson; leading Southern politician; began his political career as a nationalist and an advocate of protective tariffs, later he becomes an advocate of free trade, states' rights, limited government, and nullification.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The case that prevented the government from regulating interstate commerce
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
They supported small farmers and mechanics, were Anti-National Bank and was pro-slavery
What is the Democrat Party?
An American statesman who represented Kentucky in the Senate and the House of Representatives where he served as Speaker; served as Secretary of State from 1825-1829
Who is Henry Clay?
A doctrine that made clear that the Western Hemisphere was not to be further colonized by European countries and the that US would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
The leader of the Whig Party, opposed Jackson and the Democratic Party, spokesman for modernization, banking, and industry, served in the House of Representatives, Senate, and Secretary of State
Who is Daniel Webster?
The case which decided that federal ruling prevailed over the state powers
What is Mcculloch vs Maryland?
First political party to oppose the spread of slavery into territories, forerunners to Lincoln's Republican party
What is the Liberty Party?
A nationalist that campaigned on Manifest Destiny: Annex Texas, Occupy Oregon 54' 40" or fight.
Who is James K. Polk
Ended the Mexican War; under its terms Mexico gave up all claims to Texas north of the Rio Grande and ceded California, the Utah and New Mexico territories.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago?
African American slave brought to the US from the Caribbean. After purchasing his freedom he planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the US
Who is Denmark Vesey?
The court case which decided that only the federal government has the power to take away land from Native American tribes
What is Johnson v. Mcintosh?