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Election of 1824
This election is between John Q. Adams and Andrew Jackson. The election led to the victory of John Q. Adams.There were 3 other canidates besides Adams in this election. This was the only election in which the house of representatives decided who the president would be and also no canidate recieved the majority of the electoral vote. It is also often said to be the first election in which the president did not win the popular vote, although the popular vote was not measured nationwide. -
The election of 1828
The 2 oppoonents had faced each other before in the election of 1824. This election was a very messy one, by the time the votes were cast, both men would have wild stories circulated about their pasts, with lurid charges of murder, adultery, and procuring of women being plastered across the pages of partisan newspapers. But, in the end Jackson won by a landslide. -
Indian removal act
This act helped president Jackson negotiate with indian tribes and getting them to move their homes to a different territory that is west of the mississippi river. People in the south were very supportive of this because they wanted more land and space to grow their crops and have their cattle and farms there as well. -
Worcester v. Georgia
In 1832 the U.S. surpreme court held the cherokee indians in court for being the ones that constituted a nation holding big amounts of power. The indians were being moved and so were the missionaries. That is when they started to fight back. In 1831 worcester was arrested for the first time for violating the new law.In several decisions in the latter half of the twentieth century the Supreme Court revived Marshall's assertion that the indians had a good point, -
Nullification crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.South Carolina passed the ordinance of nullification to threaten to secede if the federal government collected tarrifs. -
Bank war
The Bank War talks about the political problems that made over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States during the Andrew Jackson administration.He began placing them in various state banks; by the end of 1833, twenty-three ‘pet banks’had been selected.The president of the Bank, Nicholas Biddle, saw Jackson’s actions, then began a countermove in August 1833.He started presenting state bank notes for redemption, making and using loans, and contracting credit.
