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Question | Answer |
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Monroe's secretary of state | John Quincy Adams |
former military hero from Tennessee. | Andrew Jackson |
The idea of spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule | Jacksonian democracy |
This practice of giving government jobs to political backers | spoils system |
a brilliant Cherokee who tried to find a way to “teach the Cherokees to talk on paper like the white man.” | Sequoya |
The act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west. | Indian Removal Act |
Native Americans would be moved to an area that covered what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska. | Indian Territory. |
This harsh journey of the Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory | Trail of Tears. Trail of Tears. |
One of the most important leaders in the war was | Osceola |
was hailed as “one of the master-spirits who stamp their name upon the age in which they live.” | John C. Calhoun |
They hated the tariff and called it the | Tariff of Abominations |
he wanted to find a way to keep South Carolina from leaving the Union. The answer he arrived at was the | doctrine of nullification |
One of the great debates in American history took place in the U.S. Senate over the doctrine of nullification–the | Webster-Hayne debate |
a senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time. | Daniel Webster |
withdrawal from the Union | secession |
which is an increase in prices and decrease in the value of money | Inflation |
was elected president in 1836 | Martin Van Buren |
a widespread fear about the state of the economy–spread throughout the country | Panic of 1837 |
severe economic slump | depression |
During Jackson's war on the national bank, Clay, Webster, and other Jackson opponents had formed the | Whig Party |
The Whigs chose __________of Ohio to run for president | William Henry Harrison |
Chosen to run for vice-president | John Tyler |