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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| spoils system | the practice of appointing people to government positions on the basis party loyalty and party price |
| pocket veto | killing a bill by taking no action on it and waiting for congress to adjourn |
| assimilaton | means to blend in together |
| Cherokees | only tribe that assimilated to white culture |
| sequoya | created the alphabet |
| Indian Removal Act of 1830 | called for the relocatoin of all Native Americans east of the Mississippi Rover to Indian territory |
| Trail of tears | 1838 was the dealine for the Indians to leave |
| Maysville Road Bill | congress agreed to pay for half the cost of extending the cumberland Road inside the state of Kentucky |
| Samuel A. Foot represented Eastern manufacturers over... | Federal Land Policy |
| Thomas Hart Benton represented.. | the west |
| Robert Y. Hayne, represented, | the South |
| Nullification | voiding federal law calling a state to raise taxes |
| What state had almost seceded? | South Carolina |
| What was reduced in 1832 | the tariff rates |
| Van Buren proposed Independent treasury System | which the federal gov. would collect its taxes in specie to be stored in vaults throughout the country |
| Independent Treasury Act | was passed in 1840 |
| platform | statement or beliefs |
| Tariff of 1842 | pleased eastern manufacturers by raising rates to what they had been 10 years ago |
| Pre-emption Act of 1841 | satisfied western demands in that "Squatters" on public lands have first right to buy lands they settled. |