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Westward Expansion and Indian Removal
Question | Answer |
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Nullification Act | A South Carolina state law saying they would ignore the federal protective tariff |
Secede | To break away/leave. |
Force Bill | An 1833 United States law authorizing the president to enforce federal tariffs. |
Tariff of Abominations | What southern protesters called the protective tariff passed by Congress in 1828. |
Indian Removal Act | A U.S. law passed in 1830 that removed Indian tribes from their homelands to federal territory in the west. |
Trail of Tears | The route that several Indian tribes were forced to use to migrate west to reservations. |
Andrew Jackson | President who claimed to be protecting Indians from destruction by moving them west of the Mississippi River. |
Dumping | The practice of selling goods in another country at very low prices. |
Sectionalism | Showing loyalty to one's state or section, rather than to the nation as a whole. |
Clay's American System | A program designed to stimulate economic growth for all sectins of the country. |
Protective tariff | The act of placing a tax on goods brought into the United States from foreign countries. |
Henry Clay | Kentucky senator who spoke for the West, called for high tariffs and believed in a National Bank. |
Daniel Webster | Massachusetts senator who spoke for the North and believed that tariffs were good for his section of the country. |
John C Calhoun | South Carolina senator who spoke for the South and believed that tariffs were bad for his section |
Nullification | A belief in extreme states' rights where states have the right to declare null and void any federal law they saw as unconstitutional |