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Elected by western farmers and eastern workers

Property qualifications for voting eliminated in almost every state

Changing nature of political campaigning

Jackson’s inauguration symbolic of new age

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Spoils SystemEvery citizen has equal right

to hold public office

Appointed officeholders should only serve short time

Federal offices should be in the hands of victorious candidate

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Kitchen Cabinet Friends who advised Jackson

Enter the White House from the kitchen

Pork-Barrel Legislation Pork and the Fat

“Veto Happy”

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8 Puerto Rican and Virgin Island rum producers get $192

so they can make more booze! $192 million.

Section 502, qualified television and film productions given an extension of favorable expensing rules, $10 million

Section 503 gives tax breaks for the manufacturer of wooden arrows used in toys for children. Price tag, $6 million

Extension and modification of duty suspension on wool products; wool research fund; wool duty refunds The 2010 to 2015 cost is estimated to be $148 million.

Seven-year cost recovery period for motorsports racing track facility. Track owners want to be able write-off the cost of their facilities on their taxes over seven years - would cost $100 million.

$49 million tax benefit for fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 1989 tanker Exxon Valdez spill.

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Policy of Assimilation Jackson felt it would not work--move the Indians

west

Most tribes put up a fight

Cherokees in Georgia--Trail of Tears Set up own state--Georgia refuse to accept

Supreme Court on the side of the Cherokees

Sent 17,000 to Oklahoma 800 miles--1/4 die*

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North passes the “Tariff of Abominations to protect northern manufacturing

South Carolina led by Calhoun passes nullification Declared the laws null and void in South

Carolina

Prohibited federal employees from collecting duties

Threatened to withdraw from the Union

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Henry Clay (Great Compromiser)

Gradual Reduction of tariffs over the next ten years

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Jackson didn’t like the whole idea Aided merchants and manufacturers--not common man

Concentrated the power in the hands of a few

Exercised too much influence economically

Jackson vetoed the bill to renew the charter of the bank

Tried to destroy the bank by withdrawing gov’t funds and putting them in state banks (pet banks)

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Anti-Jacksons join Henry Clay and Daniel Webster lead the group

Want to re-charter the National Bank

High Protective Tariffs

Strong central government*

1. The spoils system supposedly made government more democratic for all reasons except:

a. officials represented all of the people,

b. prevented official corruption,

c. gave all people a chance for public jobs,

d. turnover of personnel increased efficiency.

2. Who opposed the protective tariff that came to be known as the Tariff of Abominations?

a. Northern manufacturers,

b. Southern agriculturalists,

c. Western frontier settlers,

d. Eastern aristocrats.

3. The Jackson administration's policy toward the Indian tribes emphasized:

a. conversion to Christianity,

b. gradual assimilation into the dominant culture,

c. forced removal to Western territories,

d. extermination.

4. To Jackson, the national bank symbolized:

a. the frontier spirit,

b. the ordinary people,

c. Eastern wealth and power,

d. Southern pride and tradition.

5. The Tariff of 1828 posed a serious challenge to federal authority when:

a. Massachusetts introduced the patronage system to its state government,

b. Georgia signed a treaty of cooperation with Great Britain,

c. Congress agreed to lower import duties,

d. South Carolina declared the tariffs null and void.

6. When Congress voted to extend the charter of the Bank of the United States, Jackson:

a. resigned,

b. readied federal troops,

c. fired Henry Clay,

d. vetoed the bill.

7. Which candidate received the most popular votes in the election of 1824?

a. Henry Clay,

b. John Quincy Adams,

c. Andrew Jackson,

d. William Crawford.

8. Unlike the Jacksonian Democrats, the National Republicans thought:

a. the federal government should support internal improvements,

b. the individual states should pay for internal improvements,

c. there should be no national bank,

d. the federal government should remain as inactive as possible.

9. Which of the following of Jackson's pursuits earned him the nickname of Old Hickory?

a. the law,

b. the military,

c. cotton planting,

d. land speculation.

10. What Indian nation was legitimized by the Supreme Court?

A. The Creek

B. The Choctaw

C. The Seminole

D. The Cherokee

11. In what modern state did the Trail of Tears end?

A. Georgia

B. Oklahoma

C. Louisiana

D. Massachusetts

12. What is the modern day equivalent of the Kitchen Cabinet?

A. the Supreme Court

B. The Central Intelligence Agency

C. The president’s personal advisors

D. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee