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Ch 12 s.s. vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 6th president of the united states | John Quincy Adams |
| Military hero and seventh president | Andrew Jackson |
| Political philosophy that puts it's faith on the common people | Jacksonian democracy |
| The practice of giving government jobs to political supporters | Spoils system |
| A Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee nation | Sequoya |
| Law that required Native Americans to move west | Indian removal act |
| Area that is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which native Americans were moved | Indian territory |
| Route the Cherokees were forced to travel from Georgia to indian Territory | Trail of tears |
| Seminole who was an important leader in second Seminole war | Osceola |
| The tariff of 1828 | "Tariff of Abominations" |
| Vice-president and congressional leader from south Carolina | John c. Calhoun |
| The belief that states could ignore federal laws that they didn't like | Doctrine of nullification |
| Debate between senators Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over nullification | Webster-Hayne debate |
| A senate leader from massachusetts | Daniel Webster |
| Withdrawal from the union | Secession |
| An increase in prices and a decrease in the value of money | Inflation |
| Eight president | Martin van buren |
| Widespread concern about the state of the economy in 1837 | Panic of 1837 |
| A servere economic slump | Depression |
| Partybformed by opponents of president Jackson | Whig party |
| Ninth president | William Henry Harrison |
| Tenth president | John tyler |