Age of Jackson Assessment

South Carolina Senator and later Jackson's VP, he stood for State's rights to determine high tariffs (Nullification Crisis—didn't have to pay if they thought unfair)—wanted to expand slavery into the territories.

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

• Thomas Jefferson

With the removal of property requirements for voting, many more Americans turned out to vote in the presidential election, Jackson won by a landslide.

• The Election of 1776

• The Election 2019

• The Election of 1828

• The Election of Donald Trump

The forced journey of 16,000 Cherokee people off their land where 4000 died from exposure, starvation and disease.

• Corrupt Bargain

• Trail of Native Americans

• Uncorrupt Bargain

• Trail of Tears

Treaty between United States and Spain in 1819 that set the border between the two countries in the New World. United States was awarded control of Florida and the western boundary was set from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

• Treaty of Ghent

• Jacksonian Treaty

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Floridian Treaty

Political party formed in opposition to the policies of Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party...they supported the idea that congress was supreme over the president and favored economic protectionism.

• Itsa Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Bald Party

Highest tariff in the US, hated by the Southern states.

• Tariff of Lovepeaceandmappiness

• Tariff of Rich People

• Tariff of Obama

• Tariff of Abominations

Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee nation and make them relocate, only the federal government that those powers. Ruled in favor of the Cherokee; however, the court could not enforce the ruling, so Andrew Jackson had the Cherokee forcibly removed.

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Seminole v. Florida

• Marbury v. Madison

• Jackson v. Cherokee

Practice of handing out government jobs to supports, and replacing government employees with winning candidate's supports.

• Government System

• Friends System

• Spoils System

• Suckup System

A national road that stretched from Maryland to Illinois. It was the first national/interstate highway, and it was a milestone for the eventual connection of all the states by highways, thus increasing trade.

• Cumberland Road

• Maryland Road

• Dirt Road

• National Road

Division of the states by location and political/social/economic interests.

• Southernism

• Northernism

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism