ew Flashcards
who won the election of 1828?
Jackson
_______: this is the first presidential race in which the parties use rumors and lies to attack each other.
mudslinging
_____: When presidents give people that have supported them key positions in their new administration
patronage
Five tribes in the southeast?
Seminole Chickasaw Creek Choctaw Cherokee
Indian removal act:
Jackson believed it would allow to natives to keep their way of life and also allow Americans to get the land they wanted. It gave Jackson the power to negotiate resettlement treaties with the Native Americans and allowed the states to make laws governing their territory
Many tribes signed the treaties and moved West. The Cherokee however, filed suit in the US Supreme Court to stop the state of Georgia from taking their land.
Cherokee farmer ___ was killed after he surrendered to US Army in exchange for letting the other Cherokees to stay
Tsali
Who led a group who defeated many US troops in the Second Seminole War?
Osceola
Trail Of tears
¼ of starvation, the cold, and disease.
Some fought to the death to protect their lands; some even staged huge rebellions, killing many soldiers before being beaten by the government and forced to move anyway.
Three states that were called Indian Territory:
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
North sectional difference; what did the north want?
Wanted Tariffs, to be Very involved in manufacturing, Wanted the government to spend money on transportation to help bring food and raw materials and to help with shipping goods out to other parts of the nation and Wanted land price in the West to stay high because low prices would attract workers away from the city.
South differences; what did they want?
Opposed tariffs because most of their cotton was sold internationally so they would not make as much profit, Opposed federally funded improvements in transportation because tariffs would be required to pay for improvements, Tariffs had been increasing for 10- 12 years; south felt like the whole nation was being run according to what was beneficial for the north.
sectional differences, what did the west want?
Wanted western land to be sold cheap so that more people would settle there-increasing the political power of the west- and wanted government to spend money on transportation so that goods could be easily shipped to them
Tariff of abomination:
an extremely high tariff that set off a huge debate in Congress
Define nullify
the idea that a state could reject a law
Webster-Hayne Debate
Senator Hayne from South Carolina argued for nullification rights.
Senator Daniel Webster from Massachusetts argued that it was the people not the states that made up the Union.
Debate only served to further split the nation into North and South