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ch.12 vocab hm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sixth president of the united states | John Quincy Adams |
| military hero and seventh president | Andrew Jackson |
| political philosophy that puts its faith in 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 on raw materials and manufactured goods that outraged many southerners | "Tariff of Abominations" |
| vice-president and congressional leader from south carolina | John C. Calhoun |
| the belief that states could ignore federal laws that they did not like | doctrine of nullification |
| debate between senators daniel webster and robert hayne over nullification,anti-nullification wins taking webster to win | Webster-Hayne debate |
| a senate leader from massachustetts | Daniel Webster |
| withdrawel from the union | secession |
| an icrease in prices and a decrease in the value of money | inflation |
| eighth president,1836 | Martin Van buren |
| widespread concerrn about the state of the economy in 1837 | Panic of 1837 |
| a severe economic slump | depression |
| party formed by opponents of president jackson | Whig Party |
| ninth president,1840, died one month after his inauguration. | William Henry Harrison |
| tenth president after being voted as vice presiden to Harrison in 1840, became 10th president when Harrison died one month later | John tyler |