Age of Jackson

Who won the election in 1824

• John Quincy Adams
• Abraham Lincoln

Section of the country that wanted to buy cheap land, for tariffs, & improved transportation (roads & canals)

• North
• West

Opponents of Jackson. Henry Clay was the founder of the party. Tried to win support because of the Panic of 1837

• Whig party
• Liberal party

loyalty to interests to ones own region or section of the country 

• sectionalism
• partisan

tax on imported goods 

• income
• tariff

Describes poor, no parents, self-made man, nothing given to you/ everything earned (think of qualities of Jackson)

• wealthy man
• common man

Can null and void federal laws as viewed as unconstitutional. South Carolina writes Doctrine of Nullification. Void tariffs, & threatens to secede.

• states' rights
• human rights

cancel out or not follow

• validate
• null and void

South Carolina cancelled tariffs & threatened to secede from the Union if they tried to collect the tax

• nullification crisis
• boston tea party

The discovery of gold influenced states to force treaties on natives to peacefully move westward beyond the Mississippi River.

• land expansion
• Indian Removal Act of 1830