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Ch 12 vocab ms
ch 12 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sixth president of the U.S | John Quincy Adams |
| Military hero and seventh president | Andrew Jackson |
| Political philosophy that puts its faith in the common people | Jacksonian democracy |
| practice of giving government jobs to political supporter | 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 did not 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 severe economic slump | depression |
| party formed by opponents of President Jackson | Whig Party |
| ninth president | William Henry Harrison |
| tenth president | John Tyler |