Chapter 12 Study Guide

 

1.    In 1824, regional differences led to a fierce fight over the presidency. 

2.    In the election of 1824 Jackson won the most popular votes but did not have a majority of electoral votes.

3.    John Quincy Adams, then won the election of 1824 in the House of Representatives.

4.    Jackson felt that in the election of 1824 John Quincy Adams made a corrupt bargain with Henry Clay.

5.    Spreading political power to all the people became known as Jacksonian democracy.

6.    The expansion of voting rights helped Jackson achieve an overwhelming win in the election of 1828.

7.    Jackson earned the nickname “Old Hickory,” after a soldier claimed that he was” tough as hickory.”

8.    Since the 1600s white settlers had pushed Native Americans westward.

9.    Sequoya invented a Cherokee writing system of 86 characters.

10.  Jackson believed that the government had the right to regulate where Native Americans could live.

11.  Jackson asked Congress to pass a law that would require Native Americans to either move west or submit to state laws.

12.  At Jackson’s urging Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

13.  The area where the Native Americans were relocated came to be called the Indian Territory.

14.  Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that only the federal government, not the states, could make laws governing the Cherokees.

15.  In 1828, 16,000 Cherokees were forced to go on a harsh journey from their homeland to the west. This became known as the Trail of Tears.

16.  One of the most important Seminole leaders in the war was Osceloa. 

17.  Northerners supported high tariffs because they made imported goods more expensive than American-made goods, helping manufacturers.

18.  In 1828, Congress passed a bill that significantly raised the tariffs.

19.  Southerners hated the tariff and called it the Tariff of Abominations.

20.  A state, Calhoun said, a state had the right to nullify or reject, a federal law that it considers unconstitutional.

21.  Andrew Jackson made it clear that he opposed the doctrine of nullification.

22.  In 1830 Robert Y. Hayne, and Daniel Webster argued over the doctrine of nullification in the famous Webster-Hayne debate.

23.  South Carolina’s leaders threatened secession, or withdrawal from the Union, if the federal government tried to collect tariffs.

24.  Henry Clay came forward with a compromise tariff in 1833, South Carolina stayed in the Union.

25.  Hero of the battle of Tippecanoe who became the Whig candidate for president.          William Henry Harrison

26.  Stated that the U.S. opposed any further European colonization in the Americans        Monroe Doctrine

27.  Rewarding one’s own supporters with political jobs.                                                        Spoils System

28.  Unofficial group of Jackson’s advisors.                                                                           Kitchen Cabinet

29.  relating to or characteristic of one portion of the country.                                                Sectionalism

30.  Feeling of identify or pride towards one’s country                                                            Nationalism

31.  Period of a somewhat short and moderated decline in general business activity.          Recession

32.  a period of an especially long or severe decline in general business activity.                 Depression

33.   Refusal or rejection by a U.S. state to recognize a federal law.                                     Nullification

List the first 8 presidents in order by full name.