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born and death
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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
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The spoils system was instituted by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "To the victor goes the spoils" meant that every government job belonged to the party in power
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authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of approximately 46,000 Native Americans between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
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The nullification crisis was a United States sectional political crisis
which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government -
The Bank War was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, after his reelection convinced him that his opposition to the bank had won national support
