Jackson era crossword puzzle
Across
- 1. the act of becoming independent and no longer part of a country
- 6. one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren
- 8. the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters
- 12. the Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma
- 13. the third and last president of the Second Bank of the United states
- 14. evolving land area set aside by the United States Government for the relocation of Native Americans
- 16. authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
- 17. political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government
- 18. indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States
- 20. the ninth president of the united states
- 21. andrew jacksons wife
Down
- 2. second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States
- 3. a person selected to represent a group of people in some political assembly of the United States
- 4. native American polymath of the Cherokee Nation
- 5. a political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party
- 7. the constitutional theory that individual states can invalidate federal laws or judicial decisions they deem unconstitutional
- 9. a conservative political party that existed in the United States during the middle 19th century
- 10. eighth vice president of the united states from 1837 to 1841
- 11. cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles
- 15. seventh vice president of the united states from 1825 to 1832
- 19. the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835