Andrew Jackson

• The Whigs were the opposition party to Jacksonian Democrats
• More than 4,000 Cherokee died during their forced relocation in 1838-1839.
• President Andrew Jackson pursued a policy of Indian Removal leading to the relocation of several tribes in a forced march to lands west of the Mississippi River.
• John Quincy Adams was elected president by the House of Representatives, because of the Corrupt Bargain Jackson lost popular vote to Adams
• The Whigs opposed Jackson, but they did not have an organized party until the mid-1830s.
• Jackson's supporters called themselves "Democrats" because they believed that all citizens had an equal right to participate in government, regardless of their wealth or social status.
• Jacksonians supported states' rights over federal power.
• Andrew Jackson served as President from 1829 to 1837.
• Jackson won reelection in 1832 by defeating Henry Clay.