Vocab

Question 0

What is the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters?

Answer 0

Spoils System

Question 1

What is the idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule?

Answer 1

Jacksonian Democracy

Question 2

What was the 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require native Americans to relocate west?

Answer 2

Indian Removal Act

Question 3

What was the tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838-1839; many died?

Answer 3

Trail Of Tears

Question 4

What was an 1828 law that raised tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods?

Answer 4

Tariff of Abominations

Question 5

What was a right of state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional?

Answer 5

Doctrine of Nullification

Question 6

What was an 1830 debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the doctrine of nullification?

Answer 6

Webster-Hayne debate

Question 7

What is another word for a withdrawal?

Answer 7

Secession

Question 8

What is an increase in the price of goods and a decrease in the value of money?

Answer 8

Inflation

Question 9

What was a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed?

Answer 9

Panic of 1837

Question 10

What was a severe economic slump?

Answer 10

Depression

Question 11

What is a political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson?

Answer 11

Whig Party

Question 12

What is present day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 called?

Answer 12

Indian Territory

Question 13

What is one of the two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s?

Answer 13

Jeffersonian Democracy

Question 14

What was the conflict from 1835 to 1842 in Florida between various groups of Native Americans and the United States?

Answer 14

Second Seminole War