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Ch. 12 vocabular
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Quincy Adams | monroe's secretary of state and the sixth president |
| andrew jackson | military hero of Tennessee |
| jacksonian democracy | spreading of power to common people |
| spoils system | giving jobs to your supporters |
| sequoya | invented indian writing system |
| indian removal act | required natives to relocate west |
| indian territory | okc. and parts of nebraska and kansas |
| trail of tears | cherkee journey from their home land to indian territory |
| osceola | seminole leader |
| john c. calhoun | vice president who got kicked out during the election of 1832 |
| tariff of abominations | too much tax for the southerners |
| doctrine of nullification | calhoun said a state has the right to feject a federal law that it considers a federal law |
| webster-hayne debate | states' right debate |
| daniel webster | a senator from massachusetts |
| secession | TO WITHDRAW from the union |
| inflation | increase in prices and a decrease in $$. |
| martin van buren | president in 1836 |
| panic of 1837 | caused by jackson |
| depression | economic slump |
| whig party | party formed by jackson's enemy |
| william henry harrison | 1st president to be buried in white house,die in the white house,run a 1 month presidency |
| john tyler | president after harrison's death |