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Ch.12 Vocab
Hajin Seo S1200120 Ch.12 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe's secretary of state. | John Quincy Adams |
| A farmer military hero from Tennessee. | Andrew Jackson |
| The idea of spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule. | Jacksonian democracy |
| The practice of giving government jobs to political backers. | spoils system |
| He tried to find a way to "teach the Cherokees to talk on paper like the white man." | Sequoya |
| This 1830 act called for the government to negotiates treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate West. | Indian Removal Act |
| Present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act. | Indian Territory |
| The tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian territory between 1838 and 1839. | Trail of Tears |
| One of the most important leaders in the Second Seminole. | Osceola |
| He was hailed as " one of the master-sprits who stamps their name upon the age in which they live." | John C. Calhoun |
| An 1828 law that raised the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods. | Tariff of Abominatons |
| A right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional. | doctrine of nullification |
| One of the great debates in American history took place in the U.S. senate over the doctrine of nullfication. | Webster-Hayne debate |
| A senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time. | Daniel Webster |
| withdrawal from the Union. | secession |
| which is an increase in prices and decrease in the value of money. | inflation |
| He was elected president in 1836. | Martin Van Buren |
| A financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed. | Panic of 1837 |
| serene economic slump. | depression |
| It was named after a British party that opposed royal power. | Whig Party |
| Whigs chose him of Ohio to run of president. | William Henry Harrison |
| Whigs chose him of Virginia to run for vice-president. | John Tyler |