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Van Buren
________ did succeed in establishing a ten- hour workday on all federal projects, by presidential order, but he had only a few legislative achievements.
federal forts
He (Jackson) strengthened the ________ in South Carolina and ordered a warship and several revenue ships to Charleston.
Whigs
________ tended to be wealthier than Democrats, to have more aristocratic backgrounds, and to be more commercially ambitious.
Clay
________ ran for president that year as the unanimous choice of the National Republicans, who held a nominating convention in Baltimore late in 1831.
Van Burens plan
Under ________, known as the "independent treasury "or "subtreasury "system, the government would place its funds in an independent treasury at Washington and in sub treasuries in other cities.
Nicholas Biddle
________, who served as president of the Bank from 1823 on, had done much to put the institution on a sound and prosperous basis.
Andrew Jackson
________ retired from public life in 1837, beloved by most Americans.
Jackson
________ joined the Tennessee militia in 1801 and in the next year was elected major general.
nullification doctrine
The ________- and the idea of using it to nullify the 1828 tariff- quickly attracted broad support in South Carolina.
Martin Van Buren
________ was very different from his predecessor and far less fortunate.
Calhoun
________ was forty- six years old in 1828, with a distinguished past and an apparently promising future.
1767
Jackson, one of the most powerful presidents of the nineteenth century, was born in ________ to modest parents.
presidential election
In the ________ of 1824, less than 27 percent of adult white males had voted.
Northeast
The Whigs were strongest among the more substantial merchants and manufacturers of the ________; the wealthier planters of the South and the ambitious farmers and a rising commercial class of the West- usual migrants from the ________- who advocated internal improvements, expanding trade, and rapid economic progress.
Spoils system
________, "a system already well entrenched in a number of state governments, the Jackson administration helped make the right of elected officials to appoint their own followers to the public office an established feature of American politics.
western Georgia
In ________, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida lived what was known as the "Five Civilized Tribes- "the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw- most of whom had established settled agricultural societies with successful economies.
1830s
Democrats in the ________ envisioned a future of steadily expanding economic and political opportunities for white males.
Black Hawk War
The ________, as it became known, was notable chiefly for the viciousness of the white military efforts.
Georgia
The Cherokees in ________ had formed a particularly stable and sophisticated culture, with their own written language and a formal constitution (adopted in 1827) that created an independent Cherokee Nation.
Democratic Party
The ________, much less than Jeffersons Republicans, embraced no clear or uniform ideological position.
Cherokee Nation
In 1835, the federal government extracted a treaty from a minority faction of the Cherokees, none of them a chosen representative of the ________.
Van Buren
The ________ administration, which strongly opposed government intervention in the economy, did little to fight the depression.
Van Buren
Jackson, with ________ as his running mate, overwhelmingly defeated Clay with 55 percent of the popular vote and 219 electoral votes.
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