Andrew Jackson+Westward Expansion

Question 1

Tariff

Answer 1

a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

IN SIMPLE TERMS

A tax or duty paid by imports or exports

Question 2

Views of the Democratic party

Answer 2

believed in rights for all white men

Question 3

Jacksonian Democracy

Answer 3

Gave more rights to the white man without land and gave more power to the people

Question 4

Kitchen Cabinet

Answer 4

A group of unofficial consultants

Question 5

Spoils system

Answer 5

Giving his supporters a job in the government

Question 6

Tariff Acts of 1828 and 1832

Answer 6

Forced Americans to buy products made in the North; South was against it because they felt the laws were unconstitutional, feared other countries would not buy their cotton; and it raised the price on goods from factories

Question 7

Nullification Crisis

Answer 7

A tax was imposed on South Carolina and they nullified and threatened to leave the Union so Jackson sent troops until they surrendered having to pay the tax.

Question 8

Bank of United States and Jackson’s views on it

Answer 8

Jackson distrusted the Bank because he lost a lot of money to it and he thought it favored the rich

Question 9

Indian Removal act 1830

Answer 9

Jackson signed the contract forcing all Native Americans out of there land and to move.

Question 10

Manifest Destiny

Answer 10

Meaning obvious fate it was when the USA was going to expand out all the way to the west coast

Question 11

Three ways the United states expanded

Answer 11

War
Purchase
Settlement

Question 12

Louisiana Purchase

Answer 12

When we bought a huge amount of land from France for 15 million dollars when Thomas Jefferson was president

Question 13

Reasons for and circumstances around adding Florida and Oregon

Answer 13

Florida- So enslaved people would stop running south for freedom in Florida or in the Seminole tribe
Oregon-For more farming land and resources and for trade

Question 14

Annexation of Texas

Answer 14

Texas fought against Santa Anna for a long time then they had a big lost at the Alamo then fought again remembering the Alamo they captured Santa Anna and got there freedom years later they were let into the Union and the problem was if they should be a slave or free state

Question 15

Texas and Mexico’s feelings toward slavery

Answer 15

They didn’t like it but never enforced not having it

Question 16

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 16

The treaty marked the end of the war with Mexico making US win and taking all of the South East USA now

Question 17

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 17

USA bought a small strip of land from Mexico to make railways