The United States Through Industrialism

Presidential campaign of 1828

The sixth president of the United States

The popular hero of the Battle of New Orleans

During a campaign when both sides would hurl reckless accusations at one another

Nickname given to Andrew Jackson by his troops because of his tough, hard personality

The people used to running the country- planters, merchants, bankers, lawyers

Westerners- farmers, shopkeepers, small business owners. All were supporters of Jackson

Achieving wealth or influence through one's own effort rather than being born to a privileged family

The presidential election of 1824 when Jackson won the most popular votes and electoral votes, but not the majority of the electoral vote. Henry Clay convinced house members to vote for John Quincy Adams, who later won the election.

A new political organization created by Jackson's supporters to represent the ordinary farmers, workers, and poor

The political organization that as taken control by the rich and well-born

The nation's first campaign song cheering for Jackson

The idea that common people should control their government

A group of Jackson's trusted friends and political supporters who would meet in the White House kitchen to give him advice instead of Jackson's cabinet.

Employees of the government

The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs; Jackson replaced Republican officeholders with loyal Democrats

A tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country

To withdraw from an organization or alliance; in this case, South Carolina threatened to withdraw from the United States if the National government tried to enforce the tariff laws

Action that South Carolina took against the tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 because they believed them to be unconstitutional since it only favored the North

Bill passed by Congress to allow Jackson to use the federal army to collect tariffs if needed

Bill passed by Congress that lowered tariffs still further to satisfy the extreme states' rights supporters

The most extreme Southerners from South Carolina who were against the tariffs

The president of the national bank; he was the opposite of Jackson, wealthy, well-born, highly educated, and widely traveled

Jackson's vice president who was against the tariff laws and called on southern states to declare the tariff illegal and not to be honored. He later resigned because of disagreements between him and Jackson, to join the supporters of state's rights in South Carolina. He proclaimed them the right to nullify the tariff laws.

Ran for president against Jackson; he pushed a bill through Congress that renewed the Bank's charter four years early to make Jackson lose votes

State banks run by Jackson's supporters; were given money and federal deposits from National bank

Nickname given to Jackson by Native Americans because he was a frontier settler and famous Indian fighter

groups of Native Americans

Cherokee Indian who developed alphabet for Cherokee language

Name given to Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole because they adapted many white ways such as farming, reading, writing, etc. They hoped to live in peace but were driven out

Law passed by Congress, urged on by Jackson, allowing president to make treaties in which Native Americans in the East traded their lands for new territory on the Great Plains. It did not say that Indians should be removed by force.

Chief of Sac and Fox tribes who fought removal for two years; it ended with slaughter of most of the warriors, and he was taken captive

What the whites did over the treatment of Indians

Tribe that refused to leave Alabama and were marched west in handcuffs

Eighth president of United States

Tribe that was dragged from Georgia and herded west by federal troops on a long walk to Indian Territory

Name of the journey/long walk to Indian Territory; four thousand died

Chief of the Seminoles of Florida who resisted removal for ten years and caused costly Indian war. Some were finally sent to Indian Territory while some found refuge

River that Jackson wanted to move Indians across

Policy for moving eastern Indians across the Mississippi by force to make room for whites