Jackson Vocabulary Flashcards
Election of 1824
Clay & Adams
Corrup bargain
Tariff of 1828
Only protecting industry in the north
Feels like states right are being violated
Tariff of abominations
The states have the power to nullify the tariff (not obey federal law)
Political force of the south
John C Calhoun
The South Carolina exposition
Rewarding political supporters with public office
Spoils system
A product of spoil system
He steals and becomes tax collected of New England and steals money
Samuel Startwout
A group of people to get someone elected
-sabatoge the other persons campaign
Political machine
1st one to organize and become president -> organizes political party -> founder of democrat party 1830’s
Martin Van Buren
This is how Jackson gets in charge with the common men.
They met in the kitchen
Informal common man met to discuss current issues
Kitchen cabinet
W- north, federal powers, nationalism
H- south, states rights, (sectionalism)
-regarding protectionist tariffs
No one wins
Webster-Hayne debate
The convention threatened to take SC out of the Union of the government attempted to collect the customs duties by force
- sedition
- Jackson wants to hang everyone who supports even his Vice President
Columbia convention
Southerners gave it this nickname
Clay “the great compromiser” saves day passes the compromise tariff of gracias reaction
Authorized Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the tariffs of 1828 and 1832
Force “bloody” bill
Whigs
Jackson says “the bank is trying to kill me but I will kill it”!
He is president of bus
Nicholas Biddle
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, creek, and Seminole
They adopted some of the colonists customs (converted to Christianity adopted white culture)
Assimilated
Five civilized tribes
Ended the Mexican war and we got half of Mexico
We have Mexico $15 million financial so we can saw we paid
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidago
Lincoln demanded to know the precise locations where Mexicans have allegeoly shed american bloom on the “american” soil
Spot resolution
Polks ambassador. Polk wants California offers Santa Anna $25 million they say no lead to Mexico american war.
John Slidell
Territorial expansion
1840’s
God gave us the rights “we deserve to spread”
Expand from coast to coast
Manifest destiny
Agreement us and Britain over the Maine boundary
Webster-ashburton treaty
President of Mexico
Santa Anna
President #11
Expansionist
James Polk
Any white man can vote rather than the ones who owned property
Andrew Jackson
Universal white manhood suffrage
New democracy
Took over Nicaragua
William walker
Took over Japan
Commodore perry
Wanted to buy Cuba for $120 million the north didn’t want that
Ostend manifesto
The minors
Forty-niners
