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Americans went to the polls in the fall of 1824. Though Jackson won the popular vote, he did not win enough Electoral College votes to be elected. The decision fell to the House of Representatives.
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The spoils system was by President Andrew Jackson. To the goes the spoils meant that every government job belonged to the party in power.
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Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, beginning the forced new location of thousands of Native Americans which caused the trail of tears
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Indian lands were held hostage by the states and the federal government, and Indians had to agree to removal to preserve their identity as tribes. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion
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was a conflict between the U.S. state of South Carolina and the federal government of the United States tensions between state and federal authority almost led to a civil war.
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Andrew Jackson hated the National Bank he said that the bank favored the wealthy. As a westerner, he feared the expansion of eastern business interests and the draining of specie from the west
