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Andrew Jackson
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nominating conventions | a meeting which a political party selects its presidential and vice presidential candidate; first held in the 1800s |
| 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 |
| John C. Calhoun | american politician and supporter of slavery and states rights, he served as vice president to Andrew Jackson and was instrumental in the South Carolina nullification crisis |
| spoils system | a politicians practice of giving government jobs to his or her supporters |
| Martin Van Buren | secretary of state, was one of Jackson's strongest allies in his official cabinet |
| kitchen cabinet | resident 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 a tariff by the southerners who opposed it |
| states rights doctrine | the belief that the power of the states should be greater than te power of the federal government |
| nullification crisis | a dispute led by John C. Calhoun that said that states could ignore federal laws of they believed those laws violated the constitution |
| Daniel Webster | american lawyer and statesman, he spoke out against nullification and states rights, believing that the country should stay unified |
| McCulloch V. Maryland | 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 the 1834 by opponents of Andrew Jackson and who supported a strong legislative |
| panic of 1837 | a financial crisis of the United States that led to an economic depression |
| William Henry Harrison | american politician, he served as the governor of the Indian territory and fought Tecumseh in the Battle of Tippecanoe. he was the ninth president of the united sates |
| Indian removal act | a congressional act that authorized the removal of the Native American 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 1830s |
| bureau of Indian Affairs | a government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy towards native Americans |
| Sequoya | american Indian scholar craftsman, he created a writing system for the Cherokee language and taught literacy to many Cherokee |
| Worcester V. Georgia | the supreme court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only federal government had authority; ignored by both president Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia |
| trail of tears | an 800-miles forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one fourth of the Cherokee people |
| black hawk | native american leader of the fox and sauk Indians, he resisted the U.S. ordered removal of Indian nations from Illinois and raided settlements and fought the U.S. Army |
| Osceola | Florida Seminole leader, he resisted removal by the U.S. government despite an earlier treaty that Seminole leaders had been forced to sign. He was eventually captured and died in prison |
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