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Jackson's Rise
Unit 4 Part 2 Vocab American History I
Term | Definition |
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Andrew Jackson | military hero and seventh president |
Democratic-Republican Party | party started by Jackson’s followerss |
Spoils System | system in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends |
Indian Removal Act | law that forced Native Americans to move west |
Trail of Tears | path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory |
John C. Calhoun | Vice President and congressional leader from South Carolina |
Tariff of Abominations | Henry Clay’s name for an 1828 tariff increase |
Daniel Webster | a senate leader from Massachusetts |
Bank of the United States | National bank established by Congress first in 1791 and then in 1816 |
Whig Party | political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson |
Martin Van Buren | Eighth president of the United States |
Panic of 1837 | A series of financial failures that led to an economic depression |
William Henry Harrison | Ninth President of the United States |
John Tyler | Tenth President of the United States |
Nullify | to make ineffective or useless |