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10 Cards in this Set
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Nominating conventions |
Where party members choose the party's candidates instead of the party leaders. This period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s became known as Jacksonian Democracy |
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Spoils Systems |
The practice of giving government jobs to political breakers |
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Tariff of Abominations |
Before Jackson took office, congress placed a high tax on imports. This made southerners angry and was called the Tariff of Abominations |
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States rights doctrine |
Said that since states had formed the national bank, states power should be greater |
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Nullification crisis |
Conflict between the supporters and opponents of nullification had deepened; tarriff of abominations |
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Jackson Attacks the Bank |
Panic of 1837, a severe economic depression. Jackson's banking policies and unsuccessful plan to curb inflation contributed to the panic |
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Mcculloch vs. Maryland |
-The court ruled that the national bank was unconstitutional -Maryland taxed all the non-chartered banks in the State -Jackson won the case |
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Indian Removal act of 1830 |
Authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived East of the Mississippi River to lands in the West |
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Trail of Tears |
The Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. |
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King Andrew |
President Andrew Jackson was called "King Andrew" because of his veto power and that he wasn't following the constitution |
