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US History Unit 5
Jacksonian America
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Spoil System | government jobs are given to loyal and supportive party members |
| National Nominating Conventions | allow people to select those that run for president |
| Tariff of Abominations | Tariff on imports renewed in 1828 |
| Force Bill | Congress authorizes the use of the military to collect tariff tax in S.C. |
| Indian Removal Act | forced removal of Native Americans to the West |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal and march of thousands of Cherokee to present day Oklahoma |
| Veto Power | Jackson vetoes the renewal of the National Bank |
| Panic of 1837 | many lose their homes/land |
| Nativism | people born in America tend to not like new immigrants because they take American jobs |
| The Second Great Awakening | renewed effort to return America to God |
| Transcendentalism | embrace the beauty of nature, celebrated people and nature |
| "Civil Disobedience" Essay | break unjust laws |
| Seneca Fall Convention | birth of women's rights movement, desired the right to vote -Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Standon -Seneca Falls, NY |
| gradualism | slowly end slavery over several generation |
| colonization | American Colonization Society-send African Americans back to Africa-Liberia |
| Abolition | end slavery immediately with no compensation |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief that Americans had a duty and right to move west and expand American territory and with it American democracy, culture and freedom to the Pacific Ocean |
| Preemption Act of 1841 | squatters buy land for $1.25 per acre |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | officially ends war with Mexico |