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Age of the Common Man Jackson's presidency. He felt that the government should be run by the common people - a democracy based on self-sufficient middle class with ideas formed by liberal education and a free press. Franchise A statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) Suffrage The right to vote. Democratic Spirit The belief that all citizens have a voice in their government Andrew Jackson .As president he opposed the Bank of US, did not allow individual states to nullify federal laws, was responsible for the Indian Removal Act, the "Trail of Tears". Created Spoils System Spoil's System The system where one is elected and replaces former government officials/workers with members of his/ her own political party or his/ her friends and supporters. "To the victor belongs the spoils." Presidential Veto Constitutional power of the president to send a bill back to Congress with reasons for rejecting it; 2/3 vote in each house can override a veto. Sectional Interest Americans less concerned about the national welfare than the well-being of his region: North, South, West Tariff of 1832 Retained high taxes on imported goods. South Carolina responded with an ordinance of Nullification. Jackson responded by calling them traitors, threatened to send in federal troops. Nullification The idea that states should be able to consider void, any act of Congress that they saw as unconstitutional: Indian Removal Act 1830 congress passed this providing for the relocation by force if necessary of tribes living east of the MS River. This included the Creeks, Chickasaw Cherokees, Choctaws, Seminoles. Trail of Tears 1838 federal troops round up and force 16,000 Cherokee to march from their homes in Georgia to Oklahoma territory, causing the death of 1/4 of all the Natives: 4,000 in all Seneca Falls Declaration New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote. Elizabeth Cady Stanton A prominent advocate of women's rights, she organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott Susan B. Anthony Social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association