| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Jacksonian Democracy | increased the respect and power of the common man, demanded elected not appointed judges, encourgaed geographical expansion and opposed national/federal banking system |
| Spoils System | the informal practice where a political party, after winning an election gives government jobs to voters as a reward for working toward victory. Andrew Jackson used this system after he was elected. |
| Indian Removal | the nineteenth century policy of the government of the US to remove Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river |
| Old Hickory | Andrew Jackson |
| Trail of Tears | 4,000-15,000 Cherokee Indians died while enroute to their new lands |
| Panic of 1837 | purported causes inlcude the enomic policies of President Jackson who refused to renew the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, a national bank |
| Treaty of New Echota | this paved the way for the removal of the Cherokee Nation from their land in the east to western lands |
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