Jackson Era - Who's Who Flashcards
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| 356240555 | Henry Clay of Kentucky, Andrew Jackson of Tennessee, John Quincy Adams of MA, William Crawford of Georgia | ran for president in 1824 | |
| 356240556 | John Quincy Adams | son of President John Adams, former secretary of state under Monroe, not well liked, won presidency because Clay influenced House | |
| 356240557 | Henry Clay | won people over with his wit and charm, speaker of the house | |
| 356240558 | William Crawford | Monroe's secretary of treasury | |
| 356240559 | Andrew Jackson | hero of the Battle of New Orleans, won popular vote | |
| 356240560 | National Republicans | people who supported Adams and Clay | |
| 356240561 | Democratic | people who supported Jackson | |
| 356240562 | Adams and Jackson | ran for President in 1828 | |
| 356240563 | Jackson | won 1828 election by a landslide | |
| 356240564 | people new to voting - urban Eastern workers, farmers in South, Western states | supported Jackson in 1828 | |
| 356240565 | Nicholas Biddle | president of the Bank since 1823, came from a well-to-do Philadelphia family | |
| 356240566 | Roger Taney | Secretary of the Treasury, Jackson ordered him to put federal funds into pet banks instead of the Bank of the US | |
| 356240567 | John C. Calhoun | Jackson's Vice President, southeners turned to him to battle against the Tariff of Abominations | |
| 356240568 | Daniel Webster | Senator of MA, delivered attack on states' right as threat to the Union, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable" | |
| 356240569 | Robert Hayne | Senator of South Carolina, defended the idea of nullification | |
| 356240570 | Sequoya | Cherokee leader who developed an alphabet | |
| 356240571 | John Marshall | Chief Justice, sided with Cherokee in complaints against Georgia | |
| 356240572 | John Ross | Cherokee leader led his people on a forced march to Indian Territory | |
| 356240573 | Quatie Ross | wife of John Ross who died during the Trail of Tears | |
| 356240574 | Osceola | he and the Seminole declared war against the federal government | |
| 356240575 | Martin Van Buren | In 1837, Jackson turned over reins of government to him | |
| 356240576 | William Henry Harrison | General, hero of 1811 Battle of Tippeecanoe, Whigs chose him as a candidate | |
| 356240577 | John Tyler | Whigs selected him as Harrison's running mate |