Question | Answer |
John Quincy Adams | Monroe's Secretary of State; Was New England's choice |
Andrew Jackson | A former military hero from Tenessee |
Jacksonian Democracy | The idea of spreading political powerto all the people, thereby ensoning majority rule. |
Spoils System | The practice of winning candidates giving government to political backers or supporters |
Sequoya | A Cherokee who invented a writing system for the cherokee language without ever having to learn to read or write |
Indian Removal Act | This 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west |
Indian Territory | Present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act. |
Trail of Tears | The tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokee died |
Osceola | Used surprise attacks to defeat the U.S. army in many battles |
John C. Calhoun | Was hailed as, "One of the master-spirits who stamp their name upon the age in which they lived." |
Tariff of Abomination | An 1828 law that raised the tariffs on raw material and manufactured goods |
Doctrine of nulification | A right of the state to reject a federal law that it consideres unconstitutional |
Webster-Hayne-Debate | A 1830 debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the Doctrince Nulification |
Secession | Withdrawal |
Inflation | An increase in the price of goods and services and a decrease in the value of money |
Martin Van Buren | 8th president of the U.S. |
Panic of 1837 | A financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed |
Depression | A severe economic slump |
Whig Party | A political part organized in 1834 to oppose the politics of Andrew Jackson |
William Henry Harrison | 9th President of the U.S. |
John Tyler | 10th president of the U.S. |