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U.S History
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Corrupt Bargain
Four people were running for president in 1824. The three important people were Andrew Jackson, John Q. Adams, and Henry Clay. Jackson was winning and John Q. Adams didn't like that so he asked Henry Clay to drop out of the election and give all of his votes to him. That made John win and he became the president. -
Spoils System
The Spoils System is when Jackson became president in 1828 and it is when he kicks the president's people before him and bring the people he wants to work under him -
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by 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 Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands. -
Nullification Crisis
Confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. -
Battle with the National Bank
The Bank War was the name given to the campaign begun by President Andrew Jackson in 1833 to destroy the Second Bank of the United States, after his reelection convinced him that his opposition to the bank had won national support. -
Trail of Tears
The Native Americans were forced to move to Indian Territory which was Oklahoma during the fall and winter. One-Fourth of 16,000 Cherokees died.
