1. Jacksonian Democracy

2. For whom was Jacksonian Democracy named?
President Andrew Jackson

3. What characterized American politics in the Age of Jackson?
A new democratic spirit

4. Who participated in American politics for the first time during the Age of Jackson?
The American masses

5. In what type of government do the people who are best qualified to rule hold all the power?
An Aristocracy

6. A member of the ruling class
What is an aristocrat?
A member of the ruling class

7. Define suffrage.
The right to vote

8. What was universal white manhood suffrage?
All adult white males were eligible to vote

9. Religious (church membership) Property ownership
What two voting requirements did universal white manhood suffrage eliminate?
Religious (church membership)
Property ownership

10. What is a national convention?
Members of the same political party meet to choose that party’s candidates for president and vice president

11. How did Andrew Jackson reward his supporters?
The spoils system

12. What was the spoils system?
Giving government jobs to political supporters

13. What was the biggest criticism of the spoils system?
The best qualified people did not get government jobs

14. Why did Jackson distrust the Bank of the United States?
Undemocratic
Controlled by the Eastern elite

15. Who made up the Eastern elite during the Age of Jackson?
Wealthy businessmen

16. How can a president block a bill passed by Congress?
Veto it

17. What does it mean for a president to veto a bill?
Reject it

18. What action did President Jackson take on the bill to recharter the BUS?
Vetoed it

19. How did Jackson’s veto of the bank bill differ from all previous presidential vetoes?
It was not based on constitutional grounds.

20. What precedent was set by Jackson’s bank veto?
Presidents can veto any bill they don’t like.

21. What was the main issue in the 1832 election?
Jackson’s bank veto

22. Who ran against Jackson in 1832?
Henry Clay

23. What was Henry Clay’s political party?
National Republican

24. What political party did the National Republicans become?
The Whig Party

25. What was Jackson’s main goal during his second term as president?
Destroy the Bank of the United States

26. How did Jackson destroy the BUS?
He withdrew all the federal government’s money from the BUS

27. A major economic depression Panic of 1837
What resulted from Jackson’s decision to take the federal money out of the BUS?
A major economic depression
Panic of 1837

28. What did white Americans do to the Indians during the Age of Jackson?
Beat them in wars
Kicked them off their lands

29. What did the Indian Removal Act do?
Forced Southeastern Indians to move to a new Indian Territory

30. In what present day state was the new Indian Territory?
Oklahoma

31. What was the forced journey of the Cherokee Indians from their homes in Georgia to the new Indian Territory in Oklahoma?
The Trail of Tears

32. What Indians were on the Trail of Tears?
The Cherokees

33. What happened to nearly 1/4 of the Cherokees on the Trail of Tears?
They died.

34. What happened to other Indian tribes during the Age of Jackson?
Forced to move to Oklahoma
Made to stay on reservations

35. What happened to American Indians throughout the rest of the 19th century?
Forced to move off their ancestral lands
Kicked off their land
Made to live on reservations

36. What was the main goal of the women’s rights movement during the Jacksonian period?
Women’s suffrage
Or the right to vote

37. When did the women’s rights movement begin?
1848

38. Where did the women’s rights movement begin?
Seneca Falls, New York

39. What right for women did the Seneca Falls Declaration support?
Women’s suffrage

40. Who were two of the early leaders of the women’s suffrage movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony