Check Up pg. 192

1. How were men judged in the frontier states west of the Appalachians?
~by what they could do rather than who they were.
2. What is the spoils system? Who introduced it?
~It opened up the political process to more people, and it also decreased time spent in office; President Jackson.
3. What did the Indian Removal Act require?
~required the Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to move to lands father west.
4. What did the gradual abolitionists support? Name two well known radical abolitionist newspaper publishers.
~The idea that if slavery would be abolished gradually, then the south might preserve it's economy. William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas.
5. What was the former name of the Whig party which opposed Martin Van Buren? Historically, who did the Whigs represent?
~National Republicans; The English op posers of the King.
6. Explain how Van Buren won the presidential election of 1836 in spite of Whig opposition.
~because of the disunity of the Whigs in supporting three different candidates assured Van Buren victory.
7. What made Van Buren's term as president so difficult?
~he inherited the problems of the Jackson administration.
8. Who was the first president to die in office? how did he die?
~William Henry Harrison . pneumonia.
9. How did the Whigs feel about Tyler?
~they didn't like him at all, they never expected him to be president, they just made him VP so they would get the Southern vote.

Identify.

~Jacksonian Era; the years of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
~caucus; a closed meeting of party leaders.
~nominating convention; convention where people would choose the next presidential candidates
~National Road; road running from Cumberland, Maryland westward.
~Black Hawk; the chief of the Sac and Fox tribes
~Trail of Tears; the forced trip the Cherokees took to Oklahoma
~Nat Turner; a black preacher who stirred up the slave rebellion in Virginia
~Old Tippecanoe; William Henry Harrison's nickname