Jacksonian America
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| 1454683746 | Egalitarian | Favoring social equality; believing in a society in which all people have equal political, economic, and civil rights | 1 | |
| 1454683747 | Democratization | A process of transition as a country attempts to move from an authoritarian form of government to a democratic one. | 2 | |
| 1454683748 | Alexis de Tocqueville | He wrote a two-volume Democracy in America that contained insights and pinpointed the general equality among people. He wrote that inequalities were less visible in America than France. | 3 | |
| 1454683749 | Mass Politics | reforms encouraged expansion of political democracy through voting rights formed and creation of mass political parties | 4 | |
| 1454683750 | Soft vs Hard Money | if you dont know this by now you're going to fail the class. soft = grant, hard = salary | 5 | |
| 1454683751 | Roger B Taney | The fifth Chief Justice. him... and other justices appointed by Jackson favored the power of the states . In the Dred Scott decision (1857) he ruled that slaves and their descendants had no rights as citizens. | 6 | |
| 1454683752 | the Great Triumvirate | Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun. the three politicians that represented the Whigs against Martin Van Buren. Show that the Whig party was very splintered. | 7 | |
| 1454683753 | Martin Van Buren | Served as secretary of state during Andrew Jackson's first term, vice president during Jackson's second term, and won the presidency in 1836 | 8 | |
| 1454683754 | Blackhawk War | War that was fought in 1832 in the Midwestern United States. Consisted of more than 150 battles, raids, and killings between Mormon settlers and Native American tribes in Utah. | 9 | |
| 1454683755 | Marshall Court | vested rights in contract clauses; expanded Court's jurisdiction; judicial nationalism; blocking state regulations that limited property rights; freeing American commerce from restraints | 10 | |
| 1454683756 | Cherokees | The Trail of Tears was where the US Government forced thousands of _________ to march west, many of them dying in the process. | 11 | |
| 1454683757 | Trail of Tears | The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey. | 12 | |
| 1454683758 | Removal Act of 1830 | An act that forced all Indians to accept an exchange for their land in the East for land in Indian Territory (further west). | 13 | |
| 1454683760 | Cherokee Nation vs Gerogria | Determined that while the Cherokee people were an independent nation, they were still a "denominated domestic dependent nation". | 14 | |
| 1454683762 | Webster Ashburton Treaty | 1842 between the US and the Brits, settled boundry disputes in the North West, fixed most borders between US and Canada, talked about slavery and excredition | 15 | |
| 1454683763 | The Webster - Haynes Debate | in 1830 was over an 1830 bill by Samuel A. Foote to limit the sale of public lands in the west to new settlers | 16 | |
| 1454683764 | Charles Riverbridge vs Warren Bridge | The case settled a dispute over the constitutional clause regarding obligation of contract. | 17 | |
| 1454683765 | The Bank War | Jackson was determined to destroy the Bank of the United States because he thought it was too powerful. He felt the Bank was unconstitutional and only benefited the rich. | 18 | |
| 1454683766 | Whigs | Anti-Jackson political party that generally stood for national community and an activist government | 19 | |
| 1454683767 | Constituencies | Voters in a political district, or supporters of an elected official; or interest groups or client groups that are either directly regulated by the bureaucracy or vitally affected by its decisions. | 20 | |
| 1454683768 | Anti Mason | people who believed that the Free-Mason Society was "undemocratic" and "exclusive" because it was a secret society. Formed part of the Whig Party, because both Jackson and Van Buren were Free-Masons | 21 | |
| 1454683769 | Political bosses | powerful politician who controls work done locally and demands payoffs from businesses | 22 | |
| 1454683770 | Spoils System | A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends. | 23 | |
| 1454683771 | Political Convention | large meeting of party delegates for the purpose of nominating candidates, often held with much pomp and ballyhoo. | 24 | |
| 1454683772 | John Calhoun | First vice president during Jackson's presidency, staunchly pro-slavery vice-president, engineering the Compromise of 1850 and helping further split the nations | 25 | |
| 1454683773 | Tariff of Abomination 1828 | (Tariff of 1828) Taxed imported goods at a very high rate; the South hated the tariff because it feared it would provoke Britain to reject American cotton. | 26 | |
| 1454683774 | The Caroline and Creole Affairs | an American ship (the Creole) was bringing a ship of slaves to New Orleans but they rebelled & took over the ship & took it to the Bahamas. British officials there declared them fre | 27 | |
| 1454683775 | Osceola | Seminole leader who resisted the removal of his people from Florida in the 1830s. He died under suspicious circumstances after being tricked into surrendering (1837). | 28 | |
| 1454683776 | Worcester vs Gerogia | a case that the supreme court ruled that indians had the right to remain on their land | 29 | |
| 1454683777 | Seminole War | Conflict that began in Florida in 1817 between the Seminole Indians and the US Army when the Seminoles resisted removal. | 30 | |
| 1454683778 | Treaty of Wang Hya | establishing the first U.S. diplomatic relations with China, this secured Americans the same trading privileges as the English , and in the next ten years, American trade with China steadily increased. | 31 | |
| 1454683779 | Henry Clay | Senator who persuaded Congress to accept the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Maine into the Union as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state | 32 | |
| 1454683780 | King Andrew I | as a new political party was created in opposition to the president, they began referring to Andrew Jackson with this name, representing his "abusive" use of political power. | 33 | |
| 1454683781 | King "Mob" | Nickname for all the new participants in government that came with Jackson's presidency. This nickname was negative and proposed that Jackson believed in too much democracy, perhaps leading to anarchy. | 34 | |
| 1454683782 | Daniel Webster | Famous American politician and orator. he advocated renewal and opposed the financial policy of Jackson. Many of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal Reserve System. Would later push for a strong union. | 35 | |
| 1454683784 | William Henry Harrison | he was elected the first Whig President, but before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. His nickname was "Old Tippecanoe" | 36 | |
| 1454683785 | Federick Jackson Turner | wrote the significants of the frontier in American History in which, moving from east to west, shaped the American character and institutions. | 37 | |
| 1454683786 | The Panic of 1837 | Caused widespread human suffering and virtually guaranteed Martin Van Buren's defeat in 1840 | 38 | |
| 1454683787 | Pet Banks | State banks where Andrew Jackson placed deposits removed from the federal National Bank. | 39 | |
| 1454683788 | Log Cabin Campaign | It was a Whig party presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison in 1840. It portrayed Harrison as a simple man sprung from the people when in reality he was rich. It won Harrison the election. Campaigning among the masses. | 40 | |
| 1454683789 | John Tyler | elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862) | 41 | |
| 1454683790 | Old Tippecanoe | William Henry Harrison's nickname which comes from the famous battle he fought with Tecumseh and the Prophet. | 42 | |
| 1454683791 | Senator Benton | (1950) this was the first televised political campaign; he ran for election; he was an advertising man: he knew how to advertise--put together a TV as and set out kiosks | 43 | |
| 1454683792 | Peggy Eaton Affair | A social scandal where many wealthy cabinet member's wives snubbed the socially unacceptable Peggy Eaton, wife of John Eaton. Jackson sided with the Eatons, and the affair helped to dissolve the cabinet - especially those members associated with John C. Calhoun (V.P.), who was against the Eatons and had other problems with Jackson. | 44 | |
| 1454683793 | Caleb Cushing | American diplomat who negotiated the Treaty of Wanghia with China in 1844 | 45 | |
| 1458158691 | Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power | 46 |
