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Unit 8 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Election of 1824 | election between Adams, Clay, Jackson and 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 more than one 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" |
Worcester v. Georgia | court case in which the Cherokee won the right to stay on their land |
Electoral College | group that chooses the president of the United States |
Electors | a member of the Electoral College |
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 |
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. Nullification and secession) |
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 |
Sequoya | Native American that developed a system of writing for the Cherokee |
Trail of Tears | the forced removal of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw to modern-day Oklahoma; nearly one-quarter 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 |
Martin Van Buren | President Jackson's second vice-president; elected 8th US president; organized the Democratic Party |
Second Bank of the United States | granted twenty year charter in 1811; vetoed and "killed" by President Jackson when its funds were removed |
Suffrage | The right to vote |
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 |
Indian Removal Act | law that required the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole to move to the 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 from or leave a country |