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Jackson vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Repeal | to remove or take away a law |
| Election of 1824 | election of Adams, Clay, Jackson, Crawford; house of representatives chose the winner ; no candidate received a majority of the votes. |
| Electoral vote | Number of votes that determines the president; must be a majority or one more than half. |
| corrupt bargin | agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in which Adams won the Election of 1824; Clay hen became his secretary of state. |
| john quincy adams | Monroe's Secretary of State; 6th US president, winner of the Election of 1824. |
| henery 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" |
| andrew jackson | 7th president; from Tennessee; Winner of the election of 1828; served two terms. |
| gibbons vs odgen | Court case in which John Marshall ruled only the federal gov't has the power to regulate interstate commerce. |
| mcculuch vs maryland | court case in which John Marshall ruled a national bank was constitutional 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. |
| nessasary and proper | clause of the Constitution that states congress can do anything it needs 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 president 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 no listed in the Constitution |
| tariff of abominations | highest tariff in us history, 1828, caused nullification crisis. |
| Indian territory | located in modern day oklahoma, indian reservations were established |
| cherokee | native tribe from TN, GA, and SC; had and 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 | federlist and persided over mcculloch vs maryland and gibons vs odgen |
| james mcculloch | clerck of the maryland branch of the bank of the united states, got sued when he refused to pay marylands tax |
| sequoya | native american that developed a system of writing for the cherokee |
| trail of tears | the forced remmoval of the cherokee,chickasaw, and chocktaw to madern day oklahoma, nearly 1/4th of them died along the way |
| jacksonian- democracy | the idea of getting the more common man more involved in goverment, weather though voting or holding office |
| jacksonian democrats | political party formed to suporrt the common man and andrew jackson |
| whings | political party that was formed to oppose the policied of andrew jackson and the democrats |
| nmartin van buren | president jacksons seconf vice president , elected 10th presedent |
| nicholas biddle | president of the second bank of the united states, political enemy of andrew jackson |
| second bank of the united states | granted twenty year charter in 1811, voted and "killed" by president jackson when its fundswere removed |
| veto | the presedents power to cancel a bill passed by congress |
| dismantle | to take somthing apart |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| caucus system | prosess by wich more of the common man select canadites for president |
| spoils system | the prosess of rewarding political supporterswith goverments job |
| panic of 1837 | economic depression that happened during martin van burrens presidency |
| william henery harrison | 9th us presedent whig party, tried to portry himseld as the common man |
| indian removal act | law that required the cherokee, chickasaw, choctaw, creek, and seminole to move to modern day oklahoma |
| nullify | to declare a law passed by congress to be null and void, to cancel out. |
| secede | to withdraw or leave a countyry |
| adams onis treaty | an agreement between us and spain that gave florida to the us |
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emme maples