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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Election of 1824 | election between adams, clay, jackson, crawford, house of reps picked winner no one had majority votes |
| election of 1828 | rematch between jackson and adams; jackson became the 7th president |
| electoral vote | number of votes that determines the president; must be the majority or one more then half |
| corrupt bargain | agreement between john quincy adams and henry clay in which adams won the election of 1824; clay then became his secetery of state |
| John quincy adams | monres secreary of state; 6th us president, winner of the election of 1824 |
| henry clay | john quiency adams sectery of state; worked out compromise teriff in 1832; leader of the whig party |
| andrew jackson | represented the common man and considered the "peoples president" |
| worcester vs georgia | court case in which the cherokee won the right to stay on their land |
| electoral college | group that choses the presient of the united states |
| electors | members of the electoral college |
| house of representatives | part of congress that impeaches teh president, passes revenue bills and chooses the president if no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes |
| john c. chalhoun | jackson's first vice-president but resigned; argued in favor of states' rights; from south carolinia |
| popular vote | the number of people that vote for a presidental canidate; dosen't directly choose the president of the united states |
| tariff | tax on imported goods; favored by the north opposed by the south |
| nullification crisis | situation in jacksons presidency when south carolinia refused to follow the tariff of 1828; resolved by henry clay |
| states' rights | the docterine that states have certin powers not listed in the constitution nullify or secede |
| tariff of abominations | haghest tariff in us history; 1828 caused the nullification crisis when the south refused to pay it |
| indian territory | located in modern-day oklahoma where reservations for natives for natives were estabilished |
| cherokee | native tribe from tennessee, georgia, and south carolinia; had an alaphebet newspaper adn sued the government to stay on thier land |
| sequoya | native american that developed a system of writing for the cherokee |
| trail of tears | the forced removal of the cherokee, chicksaw adn chocktaw and to modern day oklahoma; nearly 1/4 of them died along the way |
| jacksonian democrats | political party formed to support teh common man and andrew jackson's polocies |
| jacksonian democracy | the idea of getting more of the common man involved in the government wether through involvement in the government or holding office |
| whigs | polotical party that was formed to the oppisite polotics of andrew jackson and the democrats |
| martin van buren | president andrew jacksons secound vice-president; elected 10th US president; organized the Demographic party |
| second bank of the united states | granted twenty year charter in 1811; vetoed and "killed" by president jackson when it's funds were removed |
| sufferage | right to vote |
| caucus system | process by which more of the common man select candidates for presidency |
| spoils system | the process of rewarding political supporters with gov't jobs |
| panic of 1837 | economic depression that happened during martin van burens presidency |
| william henry harrison | 9th US president; whig party; tried to portray himself as the common man |
| indian removal act | law that required the cherokee, choctaw, chicksaw, creek and simnole 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 |
| secede | to withdraw or leave a country |