Andrew Jackson era Flashcards
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526384990 | What president was Jackson similar to? | Washington | |
526384991 | Where did Andrew Jackson earn most of his support? | He drew support from every section and social class. | |
526384992 | What 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. | |
526384993 | What status did Jackson distrust or not like? | The entrenched status, or the privledged. | |
526384994 | How many terms did he have adn for what party? | he was a two term president. he was the first democratic president. | |
526384995 | What was the 1828 election focused on? | It was a focus of character assaination rather than real issues. | |
526384996 | What 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. | |
526384997 | How did Jackson feel about the common white man? | Every American adult white male was equally competent and politically important. | |
526384998 | What 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. | |
526384999 | what happend to property qualificatuions after elections became more democratic? | most states were removing their property qualifications | |
526385000 | What was the spoils system or the practice rotation? | This was when Jackson rewarded his party workers with a political office. | |
526385001 | What did Jackson show through using his "rotation"? How were some removed? | His contempt for entrenched politicians. Some were removed due to there incompetence. | |
526385002 | What was Jacksons cabinet called? Who was in this cabinet? | The kitchen cabinet. Van Buren and future president James K. Polk | |
526385003 | What was significant about the amount of bills Jackson vetoed? How many was it? | 12. He vetoed more than all the presidents before him combined. | |
526385004 | How did he feel about power of the national government? | As a Jeffersonian he belived in limited national government powers. | |
526385005 | How did he feel abouit the powers of the presidency? | He expanded them. | |
526385006 | Who 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. | |
526385007 | Who replied to Haynes argument? | Sen. Danile Webster iof Massachusetts. | |
526385008 | What did Websters reply to nullification do? | It moved the debate of nullification to the debate of the union and states rights. | |
526385009 | What did Webster argue for the union? | That the states ruigths were appearing close to treason. | |
526385010 | Who said the quote, " Liberty and union, now and forever, one and ineperable."? | Webster. | |
526385011 | Who 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. | |
526385012 | Who replaced Nicholas Biddles | ... | |
526385013 | What 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. | |
526385014 | Why 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 | |
526385015 | How 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. | |
526385016 | Who was working to use the renewal of the Bank's re charter against Jackson? | Henry Clay and the National Republicans. | |
526385017 | Who Told Van Buren "The bank is trying to kill me, but i will kill it!"? | Andrew Jackson. | |
526385018 | Waht was the main issue in the election of 1832? | The B.U.S | |
526385019 | Who 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. | |
526385020 | What were the "safe" banks that Jackson wanted the government money to go to? | "pet" banks. | |
526385021 | What would you go back to if the second B.U.S was destroyed apparently? | Loose easy credit. | |
526385022 | Who was Jacksons first vice president? What majoer issue did they not agree on? | John C. Calhoun. They didnt agree on nullification. | |
526385023 | Who said " our federal union- it must be preserved." ? | Jackson | |
526385024 | Who said "The union next to our liberty most dear."? | Calhoun. | |
526385025 | Why were relations between Calhoun and Jackson strained besides nullification? | The Peggy Eaton Affair. | |
526385026 | How were indians described as savages? | They raomed the wild in trackless wilderness and were therefore incapable of self government. | |
526385027 | What 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." | |
526385028 | What was the one indian group that tried to take up white ways? | The Cherokee | |
526385029 | Who is responsible for the Panic of 1837? | Andrew Jackson. | |
526385030 | What 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" | |
526385031 | What 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" | |
526385032 | How 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!" | |
526385033 | What came from defying the court? | 17,000 Cherokee Indians were forced to march 800 miles along the trail of terars 1838. | |
526385034 | What did the Trail of Tears encourage? | Extreme states' rights. |