Age of Jackson- Key Terms

Question 1

Forign Miners Tax

Answer 1

tax aimed at particularly Chinese miners

Question 2

Great Plains

Answer 2

Expansive land west of the Mississippi R. and east of the Rockies which was a destination for many pioneers in the early 1800s

Question 3

Treaty of Gurandalype-Hidalgo

Answer 3

This ended the Mexican American War and ceded California from Spain to the US

Question 4

Mc. Cullough v. Maryland

Answer 4

A US Supreme Court case that rule the national bank as constitional

Question 5

Jacksonian Democracy

Answer 5

The period of expanding democracy int eh 1820s and 1830s

Question 6

49ers

Answer 6

Those who sought fortunes in the gold mines during the gold rush of 1849 in California

Question 7

Spoils System

Answer 7

The practice of giving government jobs to political backers

Question 8

States Rights Doctrine

Answer 8

Says that since the states had formed the national government, state power should be greater than federal power.

Question 9

Pioneers

Answer 9

Those who set out to settle lands in the Great Planes and further west

Question 10

Panic of 1837

Answer 10

A severe economic depression after Pres. Van Buren took office.

Question 11

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 11

This agency managed the removal of Native Americans to wester lands.

Question 12

Kitchen Cabinet

Answer 12

An informal group of trusted advisors who were friends of Andrew Jackson

Question 13

Warcester v. Georgia

Answer 13

Court case that ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws in Georgia had no force

Question 14

Indian Removal Act

Answer 14

The law authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived East of the Mississippi R. to the west in 1830.

Question 15

Nullification Crisis

Answer 15

The conflict between the supporters and opponents of the nullification of feeder laws US states believed to be unconstitutional.

Question 16

Tariff of Abominations

Answer 16

Call so by outraged southerners, it was high tax on imports, singed by John Quincy Adams

Question 17

Choleria

Answer 17

A deadly disease marked by vomiting and diarrhea, caused by water contamination and animal and human waste.

Question 18

Trail of Tears

Answer 18

The Cherokee Indians’ 800-mile forced march out of their native lands. (Andrew Jackson was responsible)

Question 19

Gold Rush

Answer 19

Large scale movement to California in a desperate search for gold.

Question 20

Manifest Destiny

Answer 20

The belief that it was the right of the US to expand across the whole of North America for economic gain.

Question 21

Oregon Trail

Answer 21

Route used in the mid-1800s by pioneers setting out for a new life, which was not an easy journey.