Chapter 9 Flashcards
- Democracy in America
a study (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville of American political institutions.
- King ‘Mob”
refers to the allowance of all types of people into the White house for Jackson’s inaugural ball
- Dorr Rebellion
a failed attempt to force broader democracy on the U.S. state of Rhode Island
- Jacksonian Democracy
the political movement toward greater democracy for the common man by Andrew Jackson and his supporters.
- Spoils System
the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
- Calhoun’s theory of nullification
Calhoun argued that the South should not have to pay taxes that hurt their economy
- Martin Van Buren
the eighth president of the United States and the vice president of Andrew Jackson
- Peggy Eaton Affair
a scandal in Jackson’s cabinet when Peggy Eaton married her husband and Calhoun’s wife refused to acknowledge her
- Webster-Hayne Debate
Senator Daniel Webster and Senator Robert Y. Hayne on the topic of protectionist tariffs.
- Nullification Crisis
during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina’s 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
- Black Hawk War
a conflict between the United States and the Sauk Native Americans
- Removal Act
issued by Georgia, Alabama, Florida , and Mississippi to remove the Native Americans
- Trail of Tears
thousands of Natives were forced to walk in the middle of winter to Oklahoma
- Seminole War
the Seminole Indians refused to leave their lands in Florida so the US was all like lets battle then
- Second Bank of the United States
took the place of the First Bank of the United State when its charter expired
- Nicholas Biddle
a strong supporter of the Bank of the United State who gave out loans to people who would support him
- soft-money
money that is like credit or loans
- hard-money
money that is made of gold and silver
- Roger B. Taney
the Supreme Court Justice who became the Head Justice after Marshall
- Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
charter to the proprietors of Warren Bridge after granting a similar charter to the Charles River Bridge Company did not constitute a violation of the Contract Clause
- King Andrew I
the Whigs believed the Andrew Jackson had taken more power than her was allowed to
- Whig Party
a political party that was strongly against Jackson and believed in self-improvement
- Locofocos
were a faction of the Democratic Party that existed from 1835 until the mid-1840s.
- Anti-Masons
19th century minor political party in the United States. It strongly opposed Freemasonry
- American System
policy of promoting industry in the U.S. by adoption of a high protective tariff
- Distribution Act
sent the government’s excess tax revenue back to the states on an equalized basis. Henry Clay
- Panic of 1837
was a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s.
- “log cabins and hard cider”
used to make William Henry Harrison look like Andrew Jackson as a man of the people
- penny press
newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style papers produced in the United States starting in the 1830s
- John Tyler
took over as President after William Henry Harrison’s death
- The Caroline Affair
a series of events beginning in 1837 that strained relations between the United States and Britain.
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British
- Treaty of Wang Hya
a trade treaty made between the United States and China in 1844
