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Ch. 10 Sec. 1
Jacksonian Democracy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nominating conventions | party members choose the party's candidates instead of the party leaders |
| jacksonian democracy | the period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s |
| democratic party | Jackson's supporters |
| John C. Calhoun | Jackson's vice president |
| cabinet | presidential advisors |
| inauguration | a formal ceremony to place someone in office |
| spoils system | the practice of giving government jobs to political backers |
| Martin Van Buren | Jackson's strongest ally and Secretary of State |
| Kitchen Cabinet | an informal group of trusted advisers who sometimes met in the White House Kitchen |
| Andrew Jackson | 7th president of the United States |
| Tariff of Abominations | Congress placed a high tariff on imports |
| states' rights doctrine | stated power should be greater than federal power |
| nullification crisis | Conflict between the supporters and the opponents of nullification |
| Daniel Webster | argued that the US was one nation, not a pact among independent states and the welfare of the nation should override that of individual states. |
| McCulloch vs. Maryland | a court ruling that stated the national bank was constitutional. |
| Whig Party | favored the idea of a weak president and a strong Congress. |
| Panic of 1837 | a severe economic depression |
| William Henry Harrison | an army general, a candidate the Whigs stood behind and won the presidency. |
| Indian Removal Act | authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West |
| Indian Territory | U.S. land in what is now Oklahoma; Congress planned to move Native Americans there. |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | an new government agency to manage Indian removal to western lands |
| Sequoya | a Cherokee who created a writing system with 86 characters to represent syllables for their own language |
| Worcester v. GEorgia | the Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force. |
| Tail of Tears | the Cherokee's 800-mile forced march |
| Black Hawk | a leader of Fox and Suk Indian who led his people in a struggle to protect their lands in Illinois. |
| Osceola | leader of the Seminole who called upon his people to resist signing a removal treaty, therefore beginning the Second Seminole War. |
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