Age of Jackson

Andrew Jackson’s policies

• spoke for the common people

• violated Native American rights

The forced migration of Native Americans from the American Southeast west of the Mississippi as part of the Indian Removal Act is commonly known as?

In the 1824 Election, who were the two main candidates, both Democratic-Republicans?

• john QA Andrew Jackson

• jack and QA

• Quincy adams and jackson andrew

Who were Jackson's supporters?

• The Wealthy - The Super Rich

• The Common Man - farmers, frontiersmen

• The Educated - The Super Smart

States ignoring a federal law is called --

• nullification

• spoils system

• suffrage

• resettlement

What is federalism?

• Power to the people example voting

• a system of government in which the powers is shared between the states and national government

• each branch of government check and control the other branches

• Basic freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights for example: Freedom of Speech, Religion

The right to vote is called --

• tariff

• nullification

• suffrage

• states' rights

Where did the Federal government moved the Native Americans?

• West of the Mississippi

• East of the Mississippi

• To the North

• They did not, the Natives stayed in their homelands

Andrew Jackson called this system "rotation in office" as he believed it would rid the government of corrupt officials. After Jackson fired 10% of the government replacing them with his supports critics refer to this system as the ______ system because as the saying goes, "to the victor go the ______"

• spoils

• rotten

• swamp

• electoral

What is the best description of the tariff of abominations?

• South Carolina wanted to to stay a part of the United States.

• South Carolina was angered by a high tariff (tax) and felt they had a right to nullify it.

• Federal troops evicted 16,000 Cherokee Indians from their land.