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Chapter 12 TAT-
Question | Answer |
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Monroe secratary of the state | John Quincy Adams |
a former military hero from Tennessee | Andrew Jackson |
the idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule | Jacksonian democracy |
the practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters | spoils system |
tried to teach the Cherokee to talk paper like the white men. Invented the writing system. | Sequoya |
this 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would required Native Americans to relocate west | Indian Removal Act |
present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kabsas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 | Indian Territory |
the tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokee died | Trail of Tears |
led the Seminoles in their fight against removal. | Osceola |
one of the master-spirits who stamp their name upon the age in which they live | John C. Calhoun |
an 1828 law that raised the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods; it upset Southerners who felt that economic interests of the Northeast were determining national economic policies | Tariff of Abominations |
a right of a state to reject a federal law that is considers unconstitutional | doctrine of nullification |
an 1830 debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the doctrine of nullification | Webster-Hayne debate |
a senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time | Daniel Webster |
withdrawal | secession |
an increase in the price of goods and services and the decrease in the value of money | inflation |
vice president that was elected president in 1836 | Martin Van Buren |
a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed | Panic of 1837 |
a severe economic slump | depression |
a political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson | Whig Party |
the whig party wanted him to be president | William Henry Harrison |
the whig party wanted him to be vice president | John Tyler |