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ch.12 vocab
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John Quincy Adams | Monroe's seretary of state |
Andrew Jackson | a former military hero from tennese, at the Battle of New Orelans |
Jacksonian Democrcy | the idea of speading political power to all the people, there by ensuring majority rute |
spoils system | the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters |
Sequoya | a brillant Cherokee tried to find a way to "tech the Cerokees to talk on papers like the white man" |
Indian Removal Act | this 1830 act called for the govenment to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate |
Indian territory | present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraka to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
trails of tears | the tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838 and 1839; 1,000's of Cerokee died. |
Osceola | a leader for Seminoles in Seminole war to surpise attacks to defeat the U.S. Army in many battles |
John C. Calhoun | was hailed as " one of the master-spirts who stamp their name upon the age in which they live." |
Tariff of Abominations | an 1828 law that raised the tariffs of raw materials and manufactured goods lit upset |
Doctrine of Nullification | a right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional |
Webster-Hayne debate | an 1830 detate betwwen Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the Doctrine of Nullification |
Daniel Webster | A senator from Mass. and the most powerful speaker of his time |
secession | withdrawal |
inflation | an increase in the price of goods and services and decrease in the value of money. |
Martin Van Buren | vice-president for Jackson and became president in 1836 |
Panic of 1837 | a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed |
depression | a serve economic slump |
Whig party | a political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson |
William Henry Harrison | from Ohio torun for president of the Whig party |
John Tyler | from Virginia to be vice-president of the Whig party |