Andrew Jackson

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Across
  1. 2. the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast.
  2. 4. authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
  3. 6. John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
  4. 8. the right to vote in political elections
  5. 9. a financial crisis which affected the global economy.
  6. 10. Andrew “Old Hickory” Jackson (1767-1845) was the seventh president of the United States.
  7. 11. The Whig Party was a conservative political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century
  8. 12. Martin Van Buren was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
  9. 15. William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history.
Down
  1. 1. John Marshall was an American statesman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835.
  2. 3. encompass the present states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and part of Iowa
  3. 5. relating to the Cherokee or their language
  4. 7. championed greater rights for the common man and was opposed to any signs of aristocracy in the nation
  5. 13. Republicans who favored a national bank as well as federal funding of internal improvements—roads, canals, and bridges—became known as National Republicans.
  6. 14. because Jackson's political allies ran them.