JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY

SPOILS PATRONAGE SYSTEM

• A practice where a political party gives government jobs to its voters
• It's an incentive to keep the people working for the party.

NULLIFICATION CRISIS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

• The government raised a tax that basically only benefited the north
• The south rebelled and the government made a small lowering of taxes
• But as far as South Carolina was concerned there was no tariff

TARIFF OF 1828 A.K.A TARIFF OF ABOMINATION

• Many people from South Carolina were outraged by a tariff passed in 1828
• This tariff raised taxes on imports
• It was so controversial, it became well known as the Tariff of Abominations

JOHN C. CALHOUN

• Calhoun was a leading American politician and political theorist
• He mainly did this during the first half of the 19th century
• He served terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate
• As well as being the 7th president of the United States

WORCESTER V. GEORGIA

• This was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Worcester
• In Georgia the criminal statute that prohibited non-Native Americans from being present on Native Americans land
• In order for non-Native Americans to be present on Native Americans land they needed a license
• This case declared that unconstitutional

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT

• This was a law passed while Andrew Jackson was president on May 28, 1830
• This allowed him to negotiate with the Native Americans
• Non-Native people of the south strongly supported this

TRAIL OF TEARS

• This was a terrible ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native Americans
• Many, many Native Americans died along this trail, hence the name
• Copious members of Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw were evacuated

ELECTION OF 1840- "TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO"

• This was the 14th quadrennial presidential election held from October 30th- December 2, 1840
• "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" was the war hero's William Harrison's slogan

"HIS ACCIDENCY"

• "His Accidency" was John Tyler's nickname who was also the 10th president

IRISH AND GERMAN IMMIGRANTS

• More than one half of the Irish population emigrated to the United States
• So did an equal number of Germans
• Mainly because of civil unrest, severe unemployment, or almost inconceivable hardships at home

IRISH POTATO FAMINE

• The potato famine was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration between 1845-1852

NATIVISM

• The political position of demanding a favored stature for certain established inhabitants

SECOND GREAT AWAKENING

• This was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century
• Memberships among the Baptist and Methodist congregations rose significantly

CHARLES FINNEY

• Finney was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the 2nd Great Awakening
• He's been called the Father of Modern Revivalism

BRIGHAM YOUNG

• Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

• She was the 8th of 11 children an was born in Johnstown, New York
• Stanton is believed to be the driving force behind the 1848 Convention

SENECA FALLS CONVENTION

• This was advertised as a "Women's Rights Convention"
• At this Convention the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women were discussed

GRADUALISM

• The belief in or policy of change by gradual, slow stages

ABOLITIONISM

• A movement to end slavery

DOUGLASS' NORTH STAR

• 19th century anti-slavery newspaper published in the U.S. By abolitionist Frederick Douglass

REACTIONS TO THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IN THE NORTH AND SOUTH

• The south as expected fiercely opposed the abolitionists movement
• Whereas most people in the north supported this movement