Andrew Jackson Flashcards
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Andrew Jackson’s election
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Ran for president at the time that states were reducing or illuminating property qualifications for voting. People who didn’t have a lot of money or land could vote for him, A.k.a. other common men
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Andrew Jackson background
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- southerner and Westerner
- studied law, attorney general TN
- democrat
- old hickory: common man, Man of action
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Indian removal act
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- gives the president power to trade their land
- forces them out of their homeland and they must move to Oklahoma
- White people want to expand plantations
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Trail of tears
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The Indians were forced to walk from GA to OK and thousands die
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Bank war
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- Jackson destroys the national Bank in Philly because he doesn’t like the head of the bank, biddle, and thinks it’s corrupt because it’s too much power of the federal government’s money
- J wants to remove gold from bank and spread it throughout small banks
- Bank dies but leads to worst economic crisis of US of that time
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Wig party
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- Henry clay
- opposes Jackson
