Chapter 6 Flashcards
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What is the practice of giving government jobs based on party loyalty and other supporters?
The spoils system.
What did President Jackson consider the idea of nullification?
Treason.
What became known as the death of 4,000 Cherokee as they were forced from their homes in Georgia to Oklahoma?
The Trail of Tears.
Where did Andrew Jackson declare his intentions to remove all native Americans to in his Inaugural address?
The Great Plains.
Where did the Nullification Crisis of the 1830’s take place?
South Carolina.
What system did President Jackson support because he believed it opened up the government to more ordinary people?
The spoils system.
What did the Nullification Crisis begin over in 1828?
The Tariff of Abominations.
What provided funds to move all Native American tribes in the East to the Great Plains?
The Indian Removal Act.
What is suffrage also known as?
The right to vote.
What is the idea that states had the right to declare laws invalid?
Nullification.
What is the act of withdrawing from the Union associated with threats made by leaders in South Carolina?
Secession.
Who did the increase in suffrage in the first half of the 19th Century really only apply to?
White men.
What was the ruling by John Marshall in the case Cherokee vs. Georgia?
Georgia could not make the Cherokee leave because Georgia law did not apply there.
What qualifications did many states in the USA lower that led to an increase in suffrage?
Property ownership qualifications for voting.
Between 1815 and 1860, the US experienced a massive influx of immigrants, mostly from _
Europe
Immigrants supplied a large source of _ for American industries, but many citizens feared the influence of so many foreigners.
labor
The largest group in the wave of immigrants that swept into the US between 1815-1860 came from _.
Ireland
Most Irish immigrants were fleeing the _ (crop) famine.
potato
Most Irish immigrants arrived with no money and few skills and settled in the cities of the _.
Northeast
Most Irish immigrants worked as _ _ and _.
unskilled laborers and servants
The 2nd largest group of immigrants, over 1 million of them, were from _.
Germany
Most German immigrants had money to buy land in _ and _.
Ohio and Pennsylvania
_ is the hostility toward foreigners.
nativism
Many of the new immigrants faced discrimination: many Americans were also anti-_
Catholic