The Age of Jackson

________________ won many votes at the 1828 presidential election because he was described by his campaign as a war hero who had been born poor and rose to success through his own hard work.

Andrew Jackson

Indian leader who decided to fight U.S. officials rather than leave Illinois.

Black Hawk

________________ argued that the United States was one nation, not a pact among independent states.

Daniel Webster

U.S. Land in present day Oklahoma.

Indian Territory

______________________ advanced the states' rights doctrine.

John C Calhoun

The ____________________ refers to a group of President Jackson's advisers who sometimes met in the White House kitchen.

Kitchen Cabinet

Who was one of Andrew Jackson's strongest allies in his official cabinet?

Martin Van Buren

_______________ ruled that the national bank was constitutional.

McCulloch v. Maryland

The ______________________ sparked a dispute over the right of the states to reject a federal law as unconstitutional.

Nullification Crisis

Which of the following statements describes the social situation of the United States before Jacksonian Democracy?

Power was in the hands of a few wealthy individuals.

Which group did Osceola lead against U.S. troops?

Seminole

A Cherokee named ___________________ used 86 characters to represent Cherokee syllables to create a writing system for their own complex language.

Sequoya

___________________ objected to the so called Tariff of Abominations since they felt it would hurt their economy.

Southerners

_______________ is the practice of rewarding loyal supporters with government jobs.

Spoils System

Martin Van Buren's success in the presidential election of 1837 can be attributed to the

inability of the opposing party to decide on one candidate.

How would the frontier West in the 1800's be described?

lacked services such as roads and water.

Though the economic policies adopted by President Jackson before the Panic of 1837 did not fix the country's economic problems, they did

lower the national debt.

Northerners supported tariffs in the early 1800s because tariffs helped them compete with

British manufacturers

_____________ was a forced march to Indian Territory taken by the Cherokee.

Trail of Tears

The __________ Party favored a weak president and a strong Congress.

Whig

The Bureau of Indian Affairs was a

federal government agency created to manage the removal of Native Americans to the West.

What did the Seminole Indians do after signing a treaty in 1832 in which they agreed to leave Florida within three years?

ignored the treaty and resisted removal with force.

How did President Andrew Jackson react to Vice President John C Calhoun's view on nulification?

openly disagreed with Calhoun and watched as Calhoun resigned.

_______________ stated that only the federal government had authority over Native Americans.

worcester v. Georgia