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- 1. not the rich and upper class who controlled __________.
- 5. the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
- 6. The idea that the common people should control the government
- 8. Perhaps the dirtiest campaign in U.S. history was the presidential election of 1828. The two candidates were __________, running for reelection, and […]
- 11. The voters seemed to agree, and a large majority elected Jackson to ______ in 1832.
- 12. an employee of the government
- 14. Until the 1820s, usually only _____ with property were thought to have the education and experience to vote wisely, and so the right to vote had excluded many poorer citizens.
- 15. Despite the trying campaign, when the votes were counted, ______ was the clear winner
- 21. In 1824, Jackson ran for president […] won the most popular votes as well as the most electoral votes, but he did not have enough _________ for a majority.
- 27. […] ________ who commanded U.S. troops in the War of 1812’s Battle of New Orleans.
- 29. This expansion of democracy ________ yet include Black people. Indigenous people, or women.
- 30. This law allowed the president to make treaties in which Indigenous people in the East were moved to new territory on the ______.
- 31. Jackson made most of his decisions with the help of trusted friends ... Because these advisers … meet with him in the White House kitchen, they were called the “.”
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- 2. Jackson called the bank an _________ that existed mainly to make the rich richer.
- 3. Though Jackson had himself become rich through property ownership and enslavement, he promised to throw the rich out and return the government to “______.”
- 4. The bank was partly owned by _______, and it had a monopoly on federal deposits.
- 7. With the western states leading the way, voting laws were changed to give the “_________” the right to vote.
- 9. Although he had once lived along the frontier, Andrew Jackson had little sympathy for _____
- 10. While northern states, humming with new factories, favored the new tariff law, __________ opposed tariffs for several reasons.
- 13. In 1830, urged on by President Jackson, Congress passed the __________.
- 16. Andrew Jackson was born in 1767, on the _______ frontier.
- 17. Jackson's supporters […] to build a new political organization _________. This new party, would represent ordinary White farmers, workers, and poor people,
- 18. the removal of Cherokee from Georgia to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
- 19. When no candidate has an electoral majority, _________ chooses a president from among the three leading candidates.
- 20. Led by Calhoun, they proclaimed South Carolina’s right to nullify, or reject, both the 1828 and 1832 tariff laws. Such an action was called ________.
- 22. However, the tensions between the North and the South would increase in the years ahead over the continuation of ________.
- 23. Most of the eastern Indigenous people lived in _____ and belonged to one of five groups: the Muscogee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole
- 24. In 1828, Congress passed a_________, or taxes on imported goods such as cloth and glass.
- 25. To withdraw from an organization or alliance
- 26. Many of these new voters believed they had rescued the country from disaster because, in their view, the national government had been taken over by corrupt “__________”—that is, the rich.
- 28. The bank’s ______, or contract, was due to come up for renewal in 1836. Ja