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Chapter 12 Vocab S.S
Chapter 12 Vocabulary Terms
Question | Answer |
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president in 1824 Henry Clay came out of the running and supported him | John Quincy Adams |
former military hero from Tennessee popular in the west won most popular votes | Andrew Jackson |
idea of spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule | Jacksonian Democracy |
practice of giving government jobs to political backers | spoils system |
invented the writing system for the Cherokee language without ever having to learned to read or write in any other language | Sequoya |
called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west | Indian Removal Act |
Native Americans would moved to an area that covered what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska | Indian Territory |
harsh journey of the Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory | Trails of Tears |
supported for a strong central government spoke against sectionalism vice president of Andrew Jackson | 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 policy | Tariff of Abominations |
a right of a state to reject a federal law that it 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 most powerful speaker of his time | Daniel Webster |
withdrawal from the Union | secession |
increase in prices and decrease in the value of money | inflation |
elected president in 1836 | Martin Van Buren |
widespread fear about the state of the economy spread throughout the country | Panic of 1837 |
severe economic slump | depression |
Clay, Webster, and other Jackson opponents had formed named after a British party that opposed royal power opposed the concentration of power in the chief executive | Whig Party |
Whigs chose him to run for president 1840 | William Henry Harrison |
Whig chose him to run for vice president 1840 | John Tyler |
One of the most important leaders in the Second Seminole War. | Osceola |