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The American Journey
"DMS" The American Journey Ch.11
| terms | definitions |
|---|---|
| favorite son | a candidate that receives backing from his/her home state |
| majority | more than half of the electoral votes |
| plurality | largest single share |
| mudslinging | attempts to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults |
| landslide | overwhelming victory |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| bureaucracy | system in which nonelected officials carry out laws |
| spoils system | practice of replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters |
| caucus | system where political candidates were chosen by committees make up of members of Congress |
| nominating convention | replaced the caucus because delegates from the states selected the party's presidential candidate |
| tariff | fee paid by merchants who imported goods |
| nullify | cancel |
| secede | to break away from the United States to form one's own government |
| relocate | move from one place to another location |
| guerrilla tactics | hiding (as in forests and swamps) and making surprise attacks and then retreating back into hiding |
| veto | rejected |
| depression | a period in which business and employment fall to a very low level |
| laissez-faire | idea that government should interfere (get involved) as little as possible in the nation's economy (businesses/employment) |
| log cabin campaign | showing William Harrison in political cartoons as a wealthy man in front of a log cabin to show that this candidate was a "man of the people" (he was a person that would do things for people like the workers and farmers). |
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