Chapter 11 Questions

Chapter 11 Questions
1) Discuss the following during Jackson administration:
a) The changes in voting policies
He enabled most white males to vote.

b) The Spoils System
The party that wins is able to place people in positions that backs up or supports their ideologies.

c) Changes in the electoral college
Removal of caucus: the people who picked who would run the party. People could nominate who they wanted to run for president instead of having caucases choose for them.



d) The fight between State Rights and the Central Government (think about the Tariff Debate, the Issue of Nullification, John C. Calhoun and the threat of secession). How do these issues foreshadow the Civil War?
The central government was passing bills, Tariff, which put taxes on imported goods, the main one was the imported goods from England. However, Jackson removed it and changed it to machinery, which didn't affect the North, but infuriated the South because the south's mainly imported goods were from England. They then wanted to break away from the states and the central government did not want them to.

2) Describe the Cherokee removal from their lands. Make sure you include the following:
a) How the Cherokee lived in 1830.
They had adopted a lot of European society, had farming communities, written language, and written laws, however, they wanted Americans to obey their laws and rules.
b) The previous treaties made to the Cherokee by the U.S. Government.
The land that they were on was given to them by the government, the Cherokees became a sovereign nation within Georgia.
c) The Cherokee suing the state government and the ruling in the Supreme Court by John Marshall.
They sued the state of Georgia because Georgia tries to remove them(without force) from their land, and John Marshall agrees with the Cherokees that they cannot do this.
d) Andrew Jackson's reaction to John Marshall. 
Andrew Jackson, after being told that he may not interfere with the Cherokee or attempt to remove them, ignores these orders and forces them to walk the trail of tears. 
e) General Winfield Scott's role.
Was sent by Andrew Jackson to remove the Cherokee indians from Georgia with 7000 mens and warned the Cherokee that resistance is futile.
f) The Trail of Tears.
A walk forcing the Cherokees out of their homeland during which they walked to a Native area in present-day Oklahoma. Many of them died along the way and walked through muddy waters and icy roads barefoot.
3) Discuss Jackson's fight against the Bank of the United States.
He believed that too much power was being put into that one bank, and wanted to remove it, and he took the government funds out and put them in state banks.
a) What were his arguments against the bank?
Jackson thought the bank was unconstitutional.
b) How does he win against the bank?
By removing all federal money from the bank and inserting the funds into smaller banks.
He refuses to sign a new charter for the bank, and the bank closes.


1st Ten Presidents:
George Washington, 1789-1797 
John Adams, 1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
James Madison, 1809-1817
James Monroe, 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 (He is the only Dutch man to become President, Democrat)
William Henry Harrison, 1841 (Died in office, he was part of the whig party)
John Tyler, 1841-1844 (He finished William Henry Harrison's term)