Mr. Meza8th Grade U.S. History

Chapter 14:Andrew Jackson and the Growth

of American Democracy

Andrew Jackson

Election of 1824

Election of 1824Electoral Votes: 261Electoral Votes needed to secure victory:

13112th amendment in effect: House of

Representatives elects president Andrew Jackson wins popular vote but not

enough electoral votes to win election

Consequence

12th amendment -the person having the greatest number of

votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote

Election of

1. What is Jacksonian Democracy?The idea that the common people should

control the government

2. What happened between the elections of 1824 and 1828?Jackson’s supporters came together and

created the Democratic Party

3. What happened in the inauguration of Andrew Jackson?The celebration turned into a near riot Violence broke out

4. The election of 1828 shifted power to what group of people?Farmers, shopkeepers, and small business

owners who supported President Jackson

5. What are civil servants?An employee of the government

6. What was the spoils system?The practice of rewarding political

supporters with government jobs

7. What action under Jackson’s administration threatened to break up the country?In 1828 Congress passed a law to increase

tariffs or taxes on imported goods

8. How was the law on taxes viewed in the north and the south?The north, which was based on factories

and manufacturing, favored the new lawThe south, because it depended on

agriculture and trade, opposed the law

9.What was the effect of the law?Jackson lowered taxes in 1832 but not

enoughSouth Carolina threatened to secede –

withdraw from the union The Force Bill: use the Federal Army to

collect taxes

10. Why did Jackson fight the Bank of the United States?He thought that the bank benefited rich

eastern depositors at the expense of the farmers and workers

11. What presidential power did Jackson use against the bank?He vetoed the recharter bill, or contract

12. What was Jackson’s Indian policy?To move Indians west of the Mississippi

River to make room for whites.

13. What was the Trail of Tears?The removal of Cherokee Indians from

Georgia to Indian territory in 1838 and 1839

Four thousand Indians died during the walk