Chapter 9/10 The Age of Jackson

Question 1

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 1

Based on a message by President James Monroe to Congress in 1823, a U.S. foreign policy that barred further colonization in the Western Hemisphere by European powers and pledged that there would be no American interference with any existing European colonies.

Question 2

Jacksonian Democrats

Answer 2

Political supporters of Andrew Jackson who opposed the national bank and high tariffs.

Question 3

Indian removal

Answer 3

A military and legislative strategy- including an 1830 law passed by Congress- of forcibly relocating Native Americans to federal lands west of the Mississippi River in exchange for the land they occupied in the East and South.

Question 4

First Seminole War

Answer 4

A conflict lasting from 1817 to 1818 between allied Creek and Seminole forces and American forces led by Andrew Jackson in what was then Spanish Florida.

Question 5

party ticket

Answer 5

A publicized slate of candidates supported by a certain political party

Question 6

vanishing Indian

Answer 6

The romanticized belief that Native Americans no longer existed in the United States that was supported by fictional stories like “The Last of the Mohicans”

Question 7

Cherokee cases

Answer 7

An indigenous nation native to present-day Georgia and part of Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Reflecting the effects of President Thomas Jefferson’s land policy on Native nations, internal conflicts arose when two Cherokee men sold millions of acres of land in Tennessee to the federal government, while others resisted removal from their eastern lands.

Question 8

Trail of Tears

Answer 8

The 800-mile forced journey of the Cherokee from the southern Appalachians to Indian Territory as a result of Indian removal policy; some four thousand people died along the way.

Question 9

Indian Territory

Answer 9

Land to which forcibly removed Native peoples were relocated in present-day Oklahoma

Question 10

national party convention

Answer 10

An event where a political party selects its candidate for the presidential nomination and defines its political platform

Question 11

Bank War

Answer 11

A political struggle in the early 1830s between President Jackson and financier Nicholas Biddle over the renewal of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States