| A | B |
|---|
| He was elected president in 1828. | Andrew Jackson |
| making malicious, often untrue, charges against an opponent | mudslinging |
| Name the group of voters who helped elect Jackson to the Presidency. | the common man |
| the practice of appointing individuals to government positions on the basis of party loyalty and service. | spoils system |
| Killing a bill by taking no action on it and waiting for Congress to adjourn. | pocket veto |
| He published a Cherokee newspaper and taught Cherokee children to read and write. | Sequoya |
| Indians were removed from Georgia to lands west of the Mississippi River. | Indian Removal Act |
| 4000 Indians died from this forced march to Indian Territory | The Trail of Tears |
| to void a federal law | nullify |
| Why did the South dislike the tariff of 1828? | cotton economy was depressed |
| So. Carolina declared the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void. | The Ordinance of Nullification |
| What did So. Carolina threatened to do after issuing The Ordinance of Nullification? | threatened secession |
| Name the individual who was instrumental in getting the scaling down of the tariff of 1833. | Henry Clay |
| Name the two issues that was tearing the U.S. apart at this time. | states' rights and tariffs |
| Why did many people distrust the B.U.S.? | distrust of paper money and did not support Jackson for the Presidency |
| Farmers believed that the only honest currency was... | hard money |
| hard money | silver and gold |
| strong state banks | pet banks |
| How did Jackson destroy the National Bank | The Secretary of Treasury gradually withdrew deposits from the bank. |
| This policy created such a scarcity of credit that hundreds of businesses went bankrupt. | Biddle |
| He was elected to the Presidency in 1836. | Matin van Buren |
| depression of 1837 | withdraw of foreign investment-people horde gold and silver |
| He was elected to the Presidency in 1840. | William Henry Harrison |
| Name the political party that Harrison represented. | Whig |
| He was elected vice-president in 1840. | John Tyler |
| Who became President after Harrison's death? | John Tyler |
| John Tyler was from the state of | Virginia |
| This raised taxes to what they were 10 years earlier. | Tariff of 1842 |
| Squatters on western lands had the first right to buy the lands they had settled. | Pre-Emption of 1841 |
| Chief Justice who upheld the rights of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia. | John Marshall |
| Chief of the Seminole Indians in Florida | Osceola |
| Chief of the Sac and Fox in Illinois. | Black Hawk |
| The only cabinet member who supported Tyler | Daniel Webster |
| all payments for public lands be paid with silver or gold | Specis Circular |
