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Ch. 12 vocabular
Question | Answer |
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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 |