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CA Chapter 12
from creating america book
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| New England's choice for president in the fiercely debated race of 1824, he became the 6th president of the US | John Quincy Adams |
| a military hero, candidate in the 1824 presidential election. and winner of the 1828 presidential election | Andrew Jackson |
| The idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule | Jacksonian Democracy |
| the practice of giving government jobs to political backers or supporters of elected public officials | spoils system |
| Cherokee who invented a writing system, hoping that literacy would help the Cherokee people keep their independance | Sequoya |
| an 1830 act that gave the government the power to negotiate treaties to force native americans to relocate west | Indian Removal Act |
| the 1838-1839 deadly journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to indian territory | Trail of Tears |
| Sauk and Fox war leader | Black Hawk |
| led the Seminoles in their fight against removal | Osceola |
| a tax on imported goods | tariff |
| an increase in the price of goods and services and the decrease in the value of money | inflation |
| an economic slump | depression |
| a political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Jackson | Whig Party |
| the placing of the interest of one's own region ahead of the Nation as a whole | sectionalism |
| VP to andrew jackson and elected president in 1836. He inherited Jackson's puffed-up prosperity | Martin Van Buren |
| a Massachusetts senator who spoke about states' rights | Daniel WEbster |
| a time when economic fears prompted people to demand that banks exchange their paper money for gold and silver | Panic of 1837 |
| a bank in Philidelphia that Jackson considered unconstitutional | second national bank |
| The state that threatened to secede from the Union | South Carolina |
| most of these people felt no choice but to exchange their land for land in the west | Native Americans |
| countries view of Jackson | they liked his humble background and war hero reputation. they also like his approach toward helping the common man |
| Issues facing Jackson | the status of native americans, the rights of states, and the role of banks in the US |
| they were changed when the Jacksonian Democracy happene, and spread political power to ALL the people | voting restrictions |