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What is a Charter?
Legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
What is interstate commerce?
Trade between two or more states
What is suffrage ?
The right to vote
What is the spoils system?
The practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters
What is nullification ?
An action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects
What was the name of the time when James Monroe was President?
“Era of Good Feelings”
Name one of the three men that supported prosperity.
Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster
Why did James Monroe win the election of 1820?
No one ran against him
Who created the American System?
Henry Clay
What types of federal support did the people want?
Better roads and canals to transport goods, high tariffs
What person fought for South and Central American Independenc e?
Simon Bolivar
Who wrote the Monroe Doctrine?
James Monroe
Who went south to Florida to try to get slaves back?
Andrew Jackson
What country did the American and French revolutions inspire to fight for Independence?
Mexico
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
It told other countries that they need to stay out of the Western Hemisphere or America will attack them
Who has the nickname of Old Hickory?
Andrew Jackson
Who won the election of 1824?
John Quincy Adams
During this period, who was allowed to vote?
White men over the age of 21
What is the new party that was created from the Republican party?
Whigs
Who used the spoils system and what was it?
Andrew Jackson, he appointed his friend and supporters to office
What was the Trail of Tears?
When the Cherokee were forced off their land- About 4000 died
What was the name of the treaty in which the Chocktaw gave up their lands?
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
What person forced the Cherokee off their land?
Martin Van Buren
True or False Andrew Jackson supported the bank.
False, he did not trust it and did not renew the charter
Who was punished because of the high Tariff?
Southerners