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Chap 13 Vocab
Hesterman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| favorite son | candidate for national office who has support mostly from his home state |
| plurality | the largest number of something, but less than a majority (ex. 40%) |
| majority | greater than half of a total number of something (ex. 52%) |
| mudslinging | a campaign strategy that uses gossip and lies to make an opponent look bad |
| bureaucracy | a system of government in which specialized tasks are carried out by appointed officials rather than by elected ones |
| spoils system | handing out government jobs to supporters or family members; replacing government employees with the winning candidates supporters |
| nominating convention | meeting in which representative members of a political party choose candidates to run for important elected offices |
| relocate | move to another place |
| veto | to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law |
| Trail of Tears | the forced relocation of 15,000 Cherokee to Indian Territory |
| Worcester v. Georgia | Supreme Court case in which John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee to move them off their land |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that Maryland could not have the power to tax the National Bank |
| Nicholas Biddle | president of the Second Bank of the United States |
| John C. Calhoun | senator from South Carolina who became Jackson’s vice-president |
| Laissez-Faire | the concept that the government should interfere as little as possible in the affairs of business (it literally means “leave it alone”) |
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