The Jacksonian Era Vocab

2. nickname for Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S. President and a War of 1812 general
5. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
6. Political Movement that expanded white male suffrage.
9. President Andrew Jackson's successful political campaign to dismantle the Second Bank of the United States.
12. a U.S. constitutional confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government
13. state-chartered banks selected by the Andrew Jackson administration in 1833 to receive federal funds after Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States.
14. the formal withdrawal of a state from the federal Union.
15. the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters.
16. the act of using insults, malicious slurs, or unfair, often false, accusations to damage an opponent's reputation, commonly seen in politics.

1. a controversial 1824 US presidential election deal where Speaker of the House Henry Clay allegedly secured votes for John Quincy Adams in the House of Representatives
3. the ordinary, non-aristocratic citizen—specifically white, working-class men, farmers, and frontiersmen—who gained increased political power during the Jacksonian Democracy
4. authorized the federal government to negotiate treaties exchanging Native American lands in the Southeast for territory west of the Mississippi River.
7. Informal group of advisors that Andrew Jackson trusted
8. the forced relocation of approximately 100,000 Indigenous people
10. formal act of rendering something null, void, or invalid, effectively counteracting its power. It most commonly refers to a legal or political theory where a state or entity refuses to enforce federal laws it deems unconstitutional. It also applies to juries disregarding evidence to acquit defendants.
11. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.