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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |