Jacksonian Democracy Flashcards
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What is the period from 1824 to 1850
called?
Who is the period 1824-1850 named for?
Why did more Americans participate in
politics during the Jacksonian Era?
1) “Age of the Common Man”
2) Jacksonian Era
Andrew Jackson
1) More people could vote
2) Westward expansion
3) Sectional interests
1) the Franchise
2) Suffrage
1) Moved West
2) Worked hard and became rich
3) Fought Indians
4) Was a self-made man
1) Equality for adult white males
2) More people voted
3) New campaign techniques
4) Rise of sectional politics
The right to vote
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What two terms mean the right to vote?
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How did Andrew Jackson represent this
new “democratic spirit”?
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How did American politics change during
Jackson’s time?
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What is suffrage?
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What was universal white manhood
suffrage?
All adult white men could vote.
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What 2 voting requirements were
eliminated (done away with) in the Age of
Jackson?
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What were new campaign techniques
during the Age of Jackson?
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What political party disappeared in the
1820s?
Into what 2 political parties did the
Democratic-Republican Party split?
What nativist third party started in the
1850s?
Define nativism.
What immigrants did the Know-Nothings
dislike?
How did Andrew Jackson reward his
supporters?
What was the spoils system?
1) Religious (belong to a certain church in order to
vote)
2) Property qualification (own certain amount of
property)
1) Party newspapers
2) Campaign songs
3) Speeches
4) Campaign rallies
5) Parades
6) Picnics
Federalists
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What was wrong with the spoils system?
Was President Jackson for or against the
BUS?
What did President Jackson do to the bank
recharter bill?
1) Democrats
2) Whigs
Know-Nothings
Don’t like immigrants
1) Irish-Catholics
2) Germans
Spoils system
An officeholder giving government jobs to his supporters
(people who voted for him)
Best people didn’t get government jobs
Against
Vetoed it
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What is a presidential veto?
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What constitutional system is a presidential
veto an example of?
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What precedent was set by Jackson’s veto?
A president could veto any bill he did not like
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What did Jackson do to the BUS?
What was the big sectional (North/South)
event, while Jackson was president?
What is a tariff?
Destroyed it
Nullification Crisis
What did it mean for a state to nullify a
law?
Did South Carolina want a high tariff?
Void it; wipe it out
What did South Carolina do to the Tariff of
1832?
How did nullification threaten the federal
government?
1) Nullified it
2) Threatened to secede from (leave) the Union
If states could nullify federal laws, then the U.S.
government could not enforce laws throughout the
nation.
Threatened to send federal troops to South Carolina
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How did President Jackson respond to
South Carolina’s nullification of the tariff?
During the Nullification Crisis, what
position did President Jackson take?
During the Nullification Crisis, what
position did South Carolina take?
What group of American was hurt by the
Jacksonian Era?
What was the Indian Removal Act?
What was the forced journey of the
Cherokees to Oklahoma called?
What happened to one-fourth of the
Cherokees on the Trail of Tears?
When did the women rights’ movement get
started?
What was the main goal of the women’s
rights movement?
Where did the women’s rights movement
begin?
What right did the Seneca Falls Declaration
support?
Who were two of the leaders of the
women’s suffrage movement?
1) President rejects a bill
2) Says no to a bill passed by Congress
3) It does not become law.
The checks and balances system
A tax on imports
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For federal authority
For states’ rights
American Indians
Forced Indian tribes to move from the Southeast to
Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
They died.
Jacksonian Era
The right to vote
Seneca Falls, New York
Women’s suffrage
1) Susan B. Anthony
2) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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