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28 Cards in this Set
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Favorite son |
They received backing from their home States rather than the National Party |
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Majority |
More than half of the electoral votes |
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Plurality |
It was a most but not the majority |
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Corrupt |
Henry Clay gets Adams into president so Adams made Henry Clay the Secretary of State in Jackson's followers accused of two men of making a corrupt bargain and stealing the election |
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Mudslinging |
An attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults |
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Spoils system |
The president picks supporters |
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Nominating conventions |
When Delegates choose the party's presidential candidate |
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Five Civilized Tribes |
They formed the Cherokee, Greek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and choctaw |
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Trail of Tears |
Cherokee move from Georgia to Oklahoma, 4000 died |
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Seminole War |
Chief Osceola led the only successful trip. No other Chief was able to lead them successfully |
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Jackson versus the US Bank |
Jackson hated Nicholas Biddle the US bank president, the bank made it hard for Western Farmers to get a loan, and Jackson closes the bank in 1836 |
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Log Cabin campaign |
Harrison, made the first slogan Tippecanoe and Tyler too, and Harrison was portrayed as a regular guy sitting in front of his cabin |
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Harrison's death |
He dies of pneumonia after 32 days and Tyler is the first vice president to become president |
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Oregon Country |
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, most of Montana, and a sliver of Wyoming |
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Joint occupation |
In 1818 Britain and the US agreed to settle the Oregon Country with a boundary being installed later on |
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South pass |
The main East-West route through the Rockies |
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Mountain Men |
God's who showed people how to travel out west |
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Prairie Schooner |
A wagon with a canvas top on the Great Plains |
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Henry Clay |
He was from Kentucky and he was the Speaker of the House of Representatives |
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Andrew Jackson |
He lived in Tennessee and was a hero of the War of 1812 |
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John Quincy Adams |
He lives in Massachusetts and was the son of the former President John Adams. He was famous with merchants of the Northeast |
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Election of 1828 |
Jackson supporters called themselves Democrats and Adams supporters called themselves National Republicans but Jackson won presidency by law and Jackson supporters officially formed the Democratic Party |
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Expanding voting rights |
Jackson promised equal protection and equal benefits for all Americans. In the early years only men who owned property or paid taxes could vote so then he extended it to white male sharecroppers Factory workers and others could now participate |
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Tariff |
A tax on imported goods |
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The Tariff debate |
They made European Goods more expensive which encouraged Americans to buy American-made Goods |
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Maysville Road bill |
The bill provided federal funds for the building of a road in Kentucky |
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Indian Removal Act |
The law allow the federal government to pay Native Americans to move west |
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The panic of 1837 |
Jackson decided not to run for a third term so the Democrats chose Van Buren Jackson's vice president during his second term and won against the Whigs. The Panic lead to depression a severe downturn land values dropped and banks failed. Thousands of businesses closed, many workers lost their jobs and Farmers lost their land people could even afford food or rent |
