Replacing high-ranking members of the executive branch when a new president takes office. Also known as the spoils system.

Over 80% of white American men voted, many for the fist time in the election of 1840. This would be the highest turnout before or since.

As your book states, Jackson and others who celebrated the "common man" and talked frequently of "equality" never expected people to be equal in wealth.

When Jackson talks of "equality" he meant equal opportunity with an equal outcome for all.

Originally the Cherokee's residing in the state of Georgia were existing as a "nation within a nation." On June 1, 1830 Georgia said the authority of the state law would extend to the Cherokee.

The debt, reduced to $7 million by 1932, was completely paid off by 1835. The debt was called the "national curse" by Andrew Jackson.

John C. Calhoun argued that a state could "nullify", or veto, a federal law it deemed unconstitutional.

Your book states that when Jackson was first elected he arrived in Washington, D.C., in a horse-drawn carriage, and when he left he rode in a train.This example best describes the rapid transformations that the United

States experienced during Andrew Jackson’s presidency.

Before the Civil War, young men rising from rags to riches was very common.

What war hero was elected President in 1840 under the slogan “Log cabin and hard cider”?

During the Jacksonian Era we see the Republican party take power and maintain power in government for the next 20 years.

In the case Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes did not have to give up their land involuntarily.

During the Bank War, the Democratic party supported the creation of pet banks for federal deposits.

In 1831, both major political parties followed the example of the Anti-masonic in holding national nominating conventions.

The Independent Treasury Act was an effort passed by President Van Buren to stop the panic of 1837.

Jackson consider the debt of the United States the “national curse”.

According to your textbook, what was Jackson’s first goal as president was the removal of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands.

In the late 1840’s, this group supported internal improvements to foster economic growth.

In this case Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that Native American tribes did not have to give up their land involuntarily.

Worcester v. Georgia was the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia could not interfere with a Native American nation within their borders.

Offered as a toast at the Jefferson Day dinner: “Our Union— it must be preserved!”

Resigned the vice presidency in 1832 and was originally from South Carolina.

Was married to a woman snubbed by the wives of cabinet members.

As the 8th president, he was a skillful political whose ability to organize and manipulate legislators earned him the nickname "Little Magician."

Was the 1840 Whig vice-presidential candidate

A battle hero during the War of 1812, he would later run for President with the slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."

During this time, the Whigs and the Democrats would be the two major political parties, and we see a two-party system emerge.

The Distribution Act was a law that required the distribution of the federal budget surplus to states.