JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

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Across
  1. 2. Practice of giving government jobs to political supporters
  2. 5. Political party formed to support Jackson
  3. 7. Route taken by Native Americans during forced relocation
  4. 11. Nickname for the 1828 tariff that angered the South
  5. 12. Jackson’s Vice President and advocate for states’ rights
  6. 13. State banks where Jackson deposited federal funds
  7. 16. Public meetings to select party candidates
  8. 17. Belief that states have powers independent of the federal government
  9. 18. Political party formed by Jackson’s opponents
Down
  1. 1. Jackson’s political rival and leader of the Whig Party
  2. 3. Principle that the side with the most votes wins
  3. 4. Financial crisis blamed on Van Buren but caused by Jackson’s policies
  4. 6. Seventh President of the United States
  5. 8. Jackson’s Secretary of State and later President
  6. 9. Forced relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi
  7. 10. Jackson’s informal group of trusted advisers
  8. 14. Idea that states can invalidate federal laws they consider unconstitutional
  9. 15. Ordinary citizens whom Jackson claimed to represent