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Jackson era vocab
Question | Answer |
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new democracy | democratic principles are expaned/universal white man hood sufferage.Every white can vote. |
corrupt bargain | clay and adams had a private dinner the house of representatives vote for him and become secretary of state. |
tariff of abdominations | tariff of 1888 doesn't protect the south they are against it. |
John C. Calhoun | becomes vice president under adams and jackson was a nationalist then becomes sectionalist and supports south and wants to nulify tariff of abominations ( south carolina exposition) |
Spoils system | when a political party gives gov't jobs to its voters as a reward. |
samuel startwout | steals a million dollars from gov't |
political machine | political parties that indorse candidates. |
kitchen cabinet | unofficial advisers for Jackson.lawers,doctors unofficial meetings to get in touch with people. |
martin van buren | 8th president;founder of the democratic party. |
webster hayne debate | north and south debate about tariff and nationalism and states rights and isn't solved until the civil war.federal gov't was becoming to powerful and the tariff. |
Columbia convention | a meeting for the rebeillion of the tariff by south carolina |
force bloody bill | HE CAN USE ARMY TO COLLECT TAXES (THE PRESIDENT) |
nicholas biddle | second president of the bus ''jacksons enemy'' ''the bank is trying to kill me but i will kill it - jackson |
pet and wild banks | pet banks are state banks and gov't out their money in state banks. private banks were wild banks. |
5 civilized tribes | chicksaw,cherokee,choctaw, creek and seminole. |
indian removal act | tells indians to move to the other side of the mississippi river. |
trail of tears: | middle passage for indians while being removed. |
seminole wars | 1814 - 1819; 1835 -1842 |
stephen austin | FIRST PRESIDENT OF TEXAS |
sam houston | general command of texas forces |
santa anna | mexican dictator |
james polk | 11th president;democratic;added most of the territory to the u.s. and was also and expansionist. |
webster ashburton treaty | british and u.s. creating a border for canada and maine. |
manifest destiny | the idea that god gave americans the right to expand west. |
John slidell | american embassador sent to mexico to buy california |
spot resolution | lincoln's demand to find where this happens and where american blood is spilled |
treaty of guadalupe | an agreement between the u.s. and mexico;mexico surrenedered california and western land.We mayed mexico 15 million dollars |
wilhmot proviso | no slavery on the territiories aquiring through mexico |
william walker | white southerner went to nicaragua made himself president |
commodore perry: | navy officer .went to Japan;he took the navy to japan and made them open their ports. |
Ostend manifesto | the south wants cuba for slave land,but the north doesn't |
forty niners | gold rush was found;people who went to california to find gold (miners) |