Age of Jackson

1. Age of Jackson

2. 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 Election of Jackson

4. Spoils System • Every 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 Common man becomes President 2 of 8

5. Kitchen Cabinet • Friends who advised Jackson • Enter the White House from the kitchen • Pork-Barrel Legislation • Pork and the Fat • “Veto Happy” Presidential Policies

6. 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. Pork in the Bail out bill 2008

7. 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* Indians 4 of 8

9. 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 Nullification

11. Henry Clay (Great Compromiser) • Gradual Reduction of tariffs over the next ten years Compromise 6 of 8

12. 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) National Bank

13. Anti-Jacksons join • Henry Clay and Daniel Webster lead the group • Want to re-charter the National Bank • High Protective Tariffs • Strong central government* Whig Party

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. 10. What Indian nation was legitimized by the Supreme Court? • A. The Creek • B. The Choctaw • C. The Seminole • D. The Cherokee

24. 11. In what modern state did the Trail of Tears end? • A. Georgia • B. Oklahoma • C. Louisiana • D. Massachusetts

25. 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