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US History Ch.12
Ch.12 Vocabulary JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe's secretary of state. | John Quincy Adams |
| A former military hero from Tennessee who was elected president. | Andrew Jackson |
| The idea of spreading political power to all the people ensuring majority rule. | Jacksonian democracy |
| The practice of giving government jobs to political backers. | spoils system |
| A brilliant Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language without ever having learned to read or write in any other language. | Sequoya |
| Called for government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west. | Indian Removal Act |
| An area of what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska in which Native Americans were moved to. | Indian Territory |
| The harsh journey of the Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory. | Trail of Tears |
| An important leader in the Second Seminole War. | Osceola |
| Elected to the U.S. Congress and soon became one of its leaders, supporting the need for a strong central government, and become something of a hero to the nation's young people. He spoke out against sectionalism. | John C. Calhoun |
| Name given to the significantly raised tariff on raw materials and manufactured goods because Southerners hated it. | Tariff of Abominations |
| Proposed by Calhoun saying that a state had the right to nullify a federal law that it considers unconstitutional. | doctrine of nullification |
| A great debate in American history that took place in the U.S. Senate over the doctrine of nullification. | Webster-Hayne debate |
| A senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time who took one side on the debate against Robert Y. Hayne. | Daniel Webster |
| Withdrawal from the Union. | seccesion |
| An increase in prices and decrease in the value of money. | inflation |
| Vice President elected president because of Jackson's popularity. | Martin Van Buren |
| A widespread fear about the state of the economy that spread throughout the country shortly after Van Buren took office. | Panic of 1837 |
| Severe economic slump. | depression |
| A Political party formed by Clay, Webster, and other Jackson opponents. | Whig Party |
| From Ohio, chosen by the Whigs to run for president. | William Henry Harrison |
| From Virginia, chosen by the Whigs to run for vice-president. | John Tyler |
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