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526384990What president was Jackson similar to?Washington
526384991Where did Andrew Jackson earn most of his support?He drew support from every section and social class.
526384992What were Jacksons belifs for or what did he believe in as far as how men are treated?he belived in equality for the WHITE MAN.
526384993What status did Jackson distrust or not like?The entrenched status, or the privledged.
526384994How many terms did he have adn for what party?he was a two term president. he was the first democratic president.
526384995What was the 1828 election focused on?It was a focus of character assaination rather than real issues.
526384996What was Jacksons belief on his win in 1828?It was a mandate from the people to challange congress and the supreme court for the commomn man.
526384997How did Jackson feel about the common white man?Every American adult white male was equally competent and politically important.
526384998What changed about the presidential canidates prior to everythign becoming more democratic?The canidates were usually choosen by a congressional caucus and were now being nominated by national party conventions.
526384999what happend to property qualificatuions after elections became more democratic?most states were removing their property qualifications
526385000What was the spoils system or the practice rotation?This was when Jackson rewarded his party workers with a political office.
526385001What did Jackson show through using his "rotation"? How were some removed?His contempt for entrenched politicians. Some were removed due to there incompetence.
526385002What was Jacksons cabinet called? Who was in this cabinet?The kitchen cabinet. Van Buren and future president James K. Polk
526385003What was significant about the amount of bills Jackson vetoed? How many was it?12. He vetoed more than all the presidents before him combined.
526385004How did he feel about power of the national government?As a Jeffersonian he belived in limited national government powers.
526385005How did he feel abouit the powers of the presidency?He expanded them.
526385006Who was the senator of South Carolina, and what did he do? How did he back himself up?Robert Hayne, he wrote a speech in support of cheep land. For a back up he mentioned the posibility of nullification.
526385007Who replied to Haynes argument?Sen. Danile Webster iof Massachusetts.
526385008What did Websters reply to nullification do?It moved the debate of nullification to the debate of the union and states rights.
526385009What did Webster argue for the union?That the states ruigths were appearing close to treason.
526385010Who said the quote, " Liberty and union, now and forever, one and ineperable."?Webster.
526385011Who liked the secind B.U.S at first? Why did there opinion change?The southerners and westerners, it changed when Cheeves took over and made it more strict.
526385012Who replaced Nicholas Biddles...
526385013What did the 2nd B.U.S act as, and what did what did it control?It acted as a centeral bank controlling the lending practices of state banks.
526385014Why was the bank smacked of special privilege to some?It held monopoly of public funds yet it was governed by a handful of rich investors (britts) and foreigners
526385015How did Jackson feel about the britts with the bank?He felt like the britts wewre still dominating us, and we really had no power over them.
526385016Who was working to use the renewal of the Bank's re charter against Jackson?Henry Clay and the National Republicans.
526385017Who Told Van Buren "The bank is trying to kill me, but i will kill it!"?Andrew Jackson.
526385018Waht was the main issue in the election of 1832?The B.U.S
526385019Who was the man that finally listend to Jackson after two other people to move the money from the B.U.S and put them in safe banks?Roger Taney.
526385020What were the "safe" banks that Jackson wanted the government money to go to?"pet" banks.
526385021What would you go back to if the second B.U.S was destroyed apparently?Loose easy credit.
526385022Who was Jacksons first vice president? What majoer issue did they not agree on?John C. Calhoun. They didnt agree on nullification.
526385023Who said " our federal union- it must be preserved." ?Jackson
526385024Who said "The union next to our liberty most dear."?Calhoun.
526385025Why were relations between Calhoun and Jackson strained besides nullification?The Peggy Eaton Affair.
526385026How were indians described as savages?They raomed the wild in trackless wilderness and were therefore incapable of self government.
526385027What did Jackson promise to the indians? How did he say forever?He gave sovereignty west of the Mississippi. "for as long as the grass grows and the river flows."
526385028What was the one indian group that tried to take up white ways?The Cherokee
526385029Who is responsible for the Panic of 1837?Andrew Jackson.
526385030What did Marshall rule in the case Cherokee Nation V. Georgia?The Cherokee were "not a foreign state" He also said they were more like a "domestic dependent nation"
526385031What did Marshall rule in the case Worcesterv. Georgia?The cherokee nation was a "distinct community... in ehich the laws of Georgia can have no force"
526385032How did Jackson feel about an independent nation in the U.S? What did he say about marshall?He believed it was impossible to have one. "John Marshall made a decision, now let him enforce it!"
526385033What came from defying the court?17,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march 800 miles along the trail of terars 1838.
526385034What did the Trail of Tears encourage?Extreme states' rights.

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