History Midterm
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- Supreme court ruling that the Cherokee Nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Jackson and the state of Georgia.
- Worcester v. Georgia
- political party formed by opponents of Andrew Jackson in 1834 who supported a strong legislature
- Whig Party
- 3 crisis of Jackson's terms.
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1.Nullification
2.Veto of the Bank of the U.S.
3.Indian Removal - politician's practice of giving government jobs to their supporters
- spoils system
- an 800 mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cherokee
- Trail of Tears
- meeting where a political party selects its presidential and vice-presidential candidates; first held in the 1820's
- nominating convention
- 3 examples how the Cherokees adopted many of the white man's culture in their life.
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1.Cherokee learned to read and write English
2.Sequoya developed a writing system that used 86 characters to represent Cherokee sylabbles
3.created a government system inspired by U.S. constitution with an election system, a bicameral council, and a court system - How was John Q. Adams described?
- a Harvard-educated man whose father had been the second U.S. president, out of touch with everyday people, as "cold as a lump of ice"
- The southern economy relied on ________ particularly _________ exports.
- agriculture / cotton
- a hateful thing
- abomination
- political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824
- Democratic Party
- why did the tariffs anger the southerners?
- because it made the goods more expensive
- Who was elected president in 1840?
- William Henry Harrison
- Who was elected president in 1836?
- Martin Van Buren
- cancel
- nullify
- The name of Jackson's home is?
- The Hermitage
- Congressional act that authorized the removal of American Indians in the Southeast of the Mississippi river
- Indian removal act
- area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most American Indians in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830's
- Indian Territory
- how did the Cherokee believe that they could prevent conflicts with the settlers?
- by adopting the culture of white people
- what was Jackson's reaction to the Bank's charter renewal?
- Jackson vetoed legislation to renew the charter
- financial crisis in the U.S. that led to an economic depression and weakened the Republican Party
- Panic of 1837
- How did many southern politicans see the tariff?
- as one way the federal government was abusing its power over the states
- what effect did Jackson's veto have on the economy?
- it led to inflation but helped promote expansion in the west
- how was Jackson described in the campaign?
- as a war hero
- nickname given to a new tarriff by southerners who opposed it?
- Tariff of Abominations
- a dispute between South Carolina and the federal government in the late 1820's over the state's right to nullify or cancel, an unpopular tariff
- nullification crisis
- What was Jackson's nickname?
- Old Hickory
- what did south carolina threaten if force was used in the tariff question?
- withdraw from the union
- belief that the power of the federal government regarding the states is strictly limited
- states' rights
- Which Cherokee developed the Indian writing system?
- Sequoya