Social Studies Chapter 10 Quiz

• McCulloch v. Maryland


  Supreme Court ruled that states had no power to interfere with federal institutions
• Gibbons v. Ogden


  Under the Constitution, Congress can only establish and regulate interstate commerce
• Era of Good Feelings


  Presidency of James Monroe, time of unity, peace, general agreement, and happiness
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward


  The Constitution protects private contracts
• James Monroe


  5th president, served 2 terms, popular and well-liked, president during the Era of Good Feelings
• Simon Bolivar


  The best known leader of the struggle for independence from Spain, often called the Liberator for his role in leading independence movements. (the leader of the Republic of Great Columbia)
• Andrew Jackson


  Was sent by the US government to capture those who escaped slavery, attacked and destroyed Seminole villages, and seized two important Spanish towns
• John Quincy Adams

  Secretary of state, supported and involved in the writing and creation of the Monroe Doctrine
• Adam Onis Treaty


  Spain ceded Florida to the US
• Constitution of Mexico


  Constitution patterned after the US constitution
• 2nd bank of the US


  Made to cure the problems of the first bank, stopped the state banks from loaning too much money
• Election 1824


  The election is decided by the House of Representatives, Adams wins, there is an accusation of a corrupt bargain
• National Republicans


  New party of supporters of John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay
• Suffrage


  The right to vote, greatly extended during the Age of Jackson
• Nomination conventions


  Large meetings of party delegates to choose candidates for office
• Monroe Doctrine


  The United States will not allow Europe to be involved in the Americas
• Whigs


  A new political party of anti-Jackson forces
• Caucus


  A (small) meeting of members of a political party to make political decisions
• Spoils systems


  The practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins an election. (giving government jobs to political supporters)
• Sequoyah


  Created the Cherokee written language and wrote a constitution for them
• Worcester v. Georgia


  Georgia had no "force" or say over Cherokee territory and State of Georgia had no power over the Cherokee nations (could not move them)
• Seminoles


  Fought three unsuccessful separate wars against the national government to stop their removal
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia


  National government will not stop NA removal
• Trail of Tears


  Name given to the process where they remove NA from their traditional land
• Choctaws


  Assimilated (they gave up traditional native american ways and tried to fit into american culture) tribe, 1st tribe to be sent west by the US
• Bank War


  Bank charter was renewed by congress, but Jackson vetoed it
• Martin Van Buren


  Andrew Jackson's secretary of state and Vice president, organized Jackson's Party, president after Jackson
• William Henry Harrison


  A Whig candidate, presented himself as a common man
• Nullification


  An action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects (refusal of states to ignore a federal law)
• Panic of 1837


  Less demand for cotton, banks could not pay off their loans which created an economic collapse and banks went bankrupt
• John C. Calhoun


  Jackson's Vice President, biggest supporter of nullification