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Unit 8 vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1824 | Election between Adams, Clay, Jackson, Crawford; House of Representatives chose the winner; no candidate received a majority of the votes |
| Election of 1828 | Rematch between Jackson and Adams; Jackson elected the 7th president |
| Electoral vote | number of votes that determines the president; must be a majority or one more than half |
| Corrupt Bargain | Agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in which Adams won the Election of 1824; Clay then became his Secretary of State |
| John Quincy Adams | Monroe’s Secretary of State; 6th US president, winner of the Election of 1824 |
| Henry Clay | John Quincy Adams’ Secretary of State; worked out a compromise tariff in 1832; leader of the Whig Party |
| Andrew Jackson | Represented the common man and considered the “People’s President” 7th President; from Tennessee; winner of the Election of 1828; served two terms |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | court case in which John Marshall ruled only the federal gov’t has the power to regulate interstate commerce |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | court case in which Marshall ruled a national bank was constitutional and that a state could not tax the bank |
| Supremacy Clause | Part of the Constitution that states the Constitution is the supreme law of the land; makes the federal gov’t more powerful than the states |
| Necessary and Proper | Clause of the Constitution that says Congress can do anything it needs to to carry out its powers |
| Worcester v. Georgia | court case in which the Cherokee won the right to stay on their land |
| Interstate commerce | trade between the states |
| Implied Powers | powers not specifically given to Congress; part of the necessary and proper clause. |
| Federalism | Principle in which power is shared between a national government and state governments |
| Reinforce | to strengthen or support with additional material |
| Electoral college | group that chooses the president of the United States |
| Electors | a member of the Electoral college |
| Supreme Court | highest court in the United States; 9 justices including a Chief Justice |
| House of Representatives | part of Congress that impeaches the president, passes revenue bills and chooses the president if no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes |
| John C. Calhoun | Jackson’s first vice-president but resigned; argued in favor of states’ rights; from South Carolina |
| Ensure | to make certain that something will happen |
| Popular vote | the number of people that vote for a presidential candidate; doesn’t directly choose the president |
| Tariff | tax on imported goods; favored by the North; opposed by the South |
| Nullification Crisis | Situation in Jackson’s presidency when South Carolina refused to follow the Tariff of 1828; resolved by Henry Clay |
| States' rights | the doctrine that states have certain powers not listed in the Constitution (i.g. Nullify, secede) |
| Tariff of Abominations | highest tariff in US history; 1828; caused the Nullification Crisis when South Carolina refused to pay it |
| Indian Territory | located in modern-day Oklahoma, where reservations for natives were established |
| Cherokee | native tribe from TN, GA and SC; had an alphabet, newspaper and sued the government to stay on their land |
| Seminole | native tribe from Florida that fought removal by fighting a war |
| John Marshall | Federalist and presided over McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden |
| James McCulloch | clerk of the Maryland branch of the Bank of the United States; got sued when he refused to pay Maryland’s tax |
| Sequoya | Native American that developed a system of writing for the Cherokee |
| Trail of Tears | The forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Chocktaw to modern-day Oklahoma; nearly ¼ of them died along the way |
| Jacksonian Democrats | political party formed to support the common man and Andrew Jackson’s policies |
| Jacksonian Democracy | the idea of getting more of the common man involved in the government whether through voting or holding office |
| Whigs | political party that was formed to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson and the Democrats |
| Nicholas Biddle | president of the Second Bank of the United States; political enemy of Andrew Jackson |
| Martin Van Buren | President Jackson’s second vice-president; elected 10th US president; organized the Democratic Party |
| Second Bank of the United State | granted twenty year charter in 1811; vetoed and “killed” by President Jackson when its funds were removed |
| Veto | the president’s power to cancel a bill passed by Congress |
| Dismantle | to take something apart |
| Caucus System | Process by which more of the common man select candidates for president |
| Spoils system | the process of rewarding political supporters with gov’t jobs |
| Panic of 1837 | economic depression that happened during Martin Van Buren’s presidency |
| William Henry Harrison | 9th US president; Whig Party; tried to portray himself as the common man |
| Repeal | to remove or take away a law that has been passed |
| Indian Removal Act | Law that required the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole to move to Indian Territory in modern-day Oklahoma |
| Nullify | to declare a law passed by Congress to be null and void; to cancel out |
| Nullification | the process of a state declaring a law to be void |
| Secede | to withdraw or leave a country |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | an agreement between the US and Spain that gave Florida to the US |
| appeal | to make a serious request, usually to the public |
| suffrage | The Right to Vote |
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