Lesson 1
Political parties began holding public _____________ where party members choose the party's candidates instead of the party leaders.
What is Nominating Conventions
A tariff that was put in place before Andrew Jackson took office. Angry southerners called it the ___________________________
What is the Tariff of Abominations
The ___________ was passed by Congress in 1830. It was a policy towards American Indian nations that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
What is Indian removal act
___________ was Jackson's secretary of state and was one of his strongest allies in his official cabinet.
What is Martin Van Buren
The __________ was the Cherokee's 800-mile forced march to the Indian Territory. During the march, the Cherokee suffered from disease, hunger, and harsh weather.
What is Trail of Tears
____________ was a period of time where democracy, its ideas, and influences expanded in the 1820s and the 1830s.
What is Jacksonian Democracy
The ___________ said that since the states formed the national government, state power should be greater than federal power.
What is States' rights doctrine
The _____________ was a U.S. land that was established to move the Native Americans to.
What is Indian Territory
President Jackson relied a great deal on his ___________, an informal group of trusted advisors who sometimes met in the White House kitchen.
What is Kitchen Cabinet
Chief ___________ was a leader of the Fox and Sauk Indians who led his people in a struggle to protect their lands in Illinois.
What is Black Hawk
The __________ was a political party that was formed to support Jackson's candidacy. many people who supported president Adams began calling themselves National Republicans.
What is the Democratic Party
The __________ was a dispute over whether the states or the people made up the Union. It increased sectional tensions that would further divide the nation.
What is Nullification crisis
The ____________ was a government agency that was established to manage the Indian removal to western lands.
What is the Bereau of Indian Affairs
The ____________was a political party that favored the idea of a weak president and a strong congress.
What is Whig Party
____________ was a Seminole leader who called upon his people to resist in force, causing the Second Seminole War to begin.
What is Osceola
____________ was chosen by Andrew Jackson as his vice presidential running mate.
What is John C. Calhoun
___________ from Massachusetts argued that the United states was one nation, not a pact among independent states. he believed hat the welfare of the nation should override that of individual states.
What is Daniel Webster
_____________ was a Native American who created a writing system for the Cherokee language. His contribution led to the publishing of a Cherokee newspaper that was printed in both Cherokee ad English.
What is Sequoya
The ____________ happened shortly after Van Buren took office. It was a severe economic depression.
What is Panic of 1837
What president supported the Indian removal?
President Andrew Jackson
___________ was the practice of giving government jobs to political backers.
What is the Spoils System
The _________ was a landmark case during which the national bank was declared constitutional. The case was between John McCulloch, a cashier of the Bank's branch in Maryland, and the state of Maryland.
McCulloch v. Maryland
The _______________ case was when the court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force. It was between Samuel Austin Worcester , who was a friend to the Cherokee, and the state of Georgia.
What is Worchester v. Georgia
__________ was an American army general who ran for president for the Whig party. He won the election of 1840 against Van Buren, achieved the Whig party's goal of winning the presidency.
What is William Henry Harrison
What is the Choctaw