Chapter 10 Study Guide Jacksonian America

Gradually lowered Tariff duties

Had to buy Western lands with gold/sliver

Making malicious statements about opponents

Set an unwise precedent for government job distribution

Settled the Canadian boundary question

Devised by Henry Clay to pay for internal improvements like roads, canals, lighthouses, and observatories

The name given to the journey of the Cherokees from Georgia to Indian Territory

Thought the government should interfere with freedoms on a moral basis, tried to throw the 1836 election to the house, didn’t attract Catholics and Episcopalians

Philadelphia banker and president of the Bank of the US

Resigned the vice-presidency to lead the fight for states’ rights