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He was the son of John Adams.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
Who was Andrew Jackson?
An attempt to ruin a candidate's personal reputation with insults etc.
What is mudslinging?
This was another name for Trail Where They Cried.
What is Trail of Tears?
This was when the economy went downhill after the Bank was shut down.
What is depression?
This was a system where federal employees were replaced with supporters/followers.
What is the spoils system?
A war hero who became president after Van Buren and soon after died from pneumonia 32 days later.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This Act forced the relocation of Native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This was the state the Seminole people were able to successfully resist removal at first.
What is Florida?
This was the Whigs' slogan in 1840 when campaigning for William Harrison for president and John Tyler for vice.
What is Tippecanoe and Tyler Too?
They favored a strong central government.
What is National Republican?
This was the party Andrew Jackson was in when being selected as a presidential candidate.
What is Democrat?
They favored states' rights.
What is Democrat?
He was the 8th president who persuaded Congress to create an independent national treasury in 1840.
Who was Martin Van Buren
This man was part of the Whig part and took office after President Harrison died. He used to be a Democrat.
Who is John Tyler?
He believed that individual states had the right to nullify federal laws.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This treaty was used as justification for relocating the Cherokee people.
What is the Treaty of Echota?
A philosophy or attitude of letting people do their own thing with little government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
The depression led to people losing their money and smaller banks handing out worthless banknotes.
What is the Panic of 1837
A system where appointed officials, not elected ones, carry out laws.
What is bureaucracy?
Voters in 1832 supported supported Jackson's veto on this in regards to the U.S. Bank.
What is the Bank Charter Bill?
This state refused to recognize Cherokee law and claimed the Cherokee land as part of theirs.
What is Georgia?
These were Native Americans who adapted to U.S. settlement. There were 5 tribes.
What is Five Civilized Tribes?
These two individuals were part of the "corrupt bargaining."
Who was John Q. Adams and Henry Clay?