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To the surprise of many, the House elected John Quincy Adams over rival Andrew Jackson. Jackson's supporters denounced this as a corrupt bargain
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The spoil system also called the system, practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers and other active supporters by appointment to government posts and with our favors.
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by the United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Missipie river in exchange for the white settlement of their ancestral lands.
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The Nullification Crisis, in Us history, the confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832- 33 over the former's attempt to declare null void within the sate the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832
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Andrew Jackson hated the National Bank for various reasons. Proud of being the self-made common man he argued that the bank favored the wealthy. As a western, he feared the expansion of eastern business interest and the draining of specie from the west, so he portrayed the bank as a hydra-headed monster
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In 1838 and 1839, as a part of Andrew Jackson's indin removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.
