andrew jackson quiz

andrew jackson presidency

1829-1837

election of 1824

jackson earning popular not majority vote, henry clay uses influece and JQA

President John Quincy Adams

• internal improvements

• aid to manufacturing

• national university

• astronomical observatory

• tariff of abominations

the presidency of andrew jackson

• “common man”

• opposed federal spending and debt

• vetoed more bills

• peggy eaton affairs

• indian removal act

• trail of tears

• nullification crisis

“kitchen cabinet”

closest adivers of jackson that did not belong to official cabient

peggy eaton affair

jacksons secretary of wars wife attacked, jackson tries to help, people say no → ppl resign→ resignation of jacksons VP john c calhoun

Indian removal act

1830

• forced resettlement of thousands of american indians

bureau of indian affair

1836

• assist resettle tribes from 1830

cherokee navation v georgia

1831

• gerogia passed law forcing cherokee to mmore, cherokee stated not a foreign nation and had right to sue in federal court

worcester v georgia

1832

• high court rules georgia had no force in cherokee territory

trail of tears

after jackson left office, US army forced 15k cherokees westward, 4k died

• 1835

tariff of abominations

1828 in south carolina declared unconstitutional

nullification theory

each state had the right to decide whether to obey a federal law or to declare it null and void

proclamation to the people of south carolina

passed by andrew jackson states that nullification and disunion were treason

opposition to antislavery

jackson used power to stop antislavery literature, did not want to extend democracies to african americans

two party system

democrats- supporters of jackson

whigs- henry clay, resembled hamilton, internal improvements, etc.

pet banks

where money from bank of united states wawas transfered to by roger taney

panic of 1837

after jackson left, happened bcs he issued specie circular which devalued paper money