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Ch 10 - Jackson
Age of Jackson. Chapter 10, The American Journey to WW1. O'Dell MTMS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Andrew Jackson | Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; elected president in 1828; favorite son from Tennessee (PAGE 447) |
| Black Hawk | led Native American force of Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois (PAGE 455) |
| Daniel Webster | Senator from Massachusetts who delivered a stinging attack on nullification; he defended the Constitution and the Union. (PAGE 450) |
| Henry Clay | Warhawk, Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; from Kentucky (PAGE 447) |
| John Quincy Adams | Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; from Massachusetts (PAGE 447) |
| Nicholas Biddle | president of the Bank of the United States (PAGE 459) |
| Osceola | Seminole chief who refused to leave Florida (PAGE 455) |
| Robert Hayne | a young senator from South Carolina who defended the states had a right to nullify acts of the federal government and to secede (PAGE 450) |
| William Henry Harrison | military hero; Whig; won presidential election of 1840; died of pneumonia one month into term (PAGE 461) |
| bureaucracy | a system in which nonelected officials carry out laws and policies (PAGE 449) |
| depression | a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment (PAGE 460) |
| favorite son | the candidate that receives the backing of his home state rather than of the national party (PAGE 447) |
| guerrilla tactics | referring to surprise attacks or raids rather than organized warfare where armies fight directly (PAGE 455) |
| landslide | an overwhelming victory (PAGE 448) |
| mudslinging | an attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults (PAGE 448) |
| relocate | to force a person or group of people to move (PAGE 453) |
| secede | to leave or withdraw from a country (PAGE 450) |
| spoils system | handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters (PAGE 449) |
| veto | to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law; the president refuses to sign the bill into law (PAGE 459) |
| Panic of 1837 | time during the presidency of Martin Van Buren when land prices dropped quickly, investments lost their value, and banks failed. (PAGE 460) |
| nullify | action of a state government to make a federal law not apply in their state (PAGE 450) |
| The Nullification Crisis | difficult time when southern states refused to accept the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. Things relaxed when a lower tariff was passed. (PAGE 451) |
| Trail of Tears | the forced movement of the Cherokee tribe west to settlements in Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many. (PAGE 454) |
| Whig Party | a new political party beginning in the presidential election of 1836 made up of National Republicans and other people opposed to the policies of Andrew Jackson (PAGES 460-461) |
| Democratic Party | a new political party in the presidential election of 1824 after a split in the Democratic-Republican Party. (PAGE 447) |
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