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Foy Ch. 10 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nominating conventions | A meeting at which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidate; first held in the 1820's. |
| Jacksonian Democracy | An expansion of voting rights during the popular Andrew Jackson administration. |
| Democratic Party | A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824. |
| spoils system | A politician's practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters. |
| Kitchen Cabinet | President Andrew Jackson's group of informal advisers; so called because they often met in the White House kitchen. |
| Tariff of Abominations | The nickname given to an 1828 tariff by southerners who opposed it. |
| states' rights doctrine | The belief that the power of the states should be greater than the power of the federal government. |
| nullification crisis | A dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws if they believed those laws violated the Constitution. |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | An 1819 U.S. Supreme Court case that declared the Second Bank of the United States was constitutional and that Maryland could not interfere with it. |
| Whig Party | A political party formed in 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislature. |
| Panic of 1837 | A financial crisis in the United States that led to an economic depression. |
| Indian Removal Act | An 1830 congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River. |
| Indian Territory | An area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most Native Americans in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830's. |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | A government agency created in the 1800's to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans. |
| Worcester v. Georgia | The 1832 Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia. |
| Trail of Tears | An 800-mile forced march from 1838-39 made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people. |
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