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Age of Jackson. Chapter 10, The American Journey to WW1. O'Dell MTMS

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Andrew Jackson   Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; elected president in 1828; favorite son from Tennessee (PAGE 447)  
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Black Hawk   led Native American force of Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois (PAGE 455)  
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Daniel Webster   Senator from Massachusetts who delivered a stinging attack on nullification; he defended the Constitution and the Union. (PAGE 450)  
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Henry Clay   Warhawk, Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; from Kentucky (PAGE 447)  
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John Quincy Adams   Republican candidate for president in the 1824 election; from Massachusetts (PAGE 447)  
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Nicholas Biddle   president of the Bank of the United States (PAGE 459)  
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Osceola   Seminole chief who refused to leave Florida (PAGE 455)  
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Robert Hayne   a young senator from South Carolina who defended the states had a right to nullify acts of the federal government and to secede (PAGE 450)  
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William Henry Harrison   military hero; Whig; won presidential election of 1840; died of pneumonia one month into term (PAGE 461)  
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bureaucracy   a system in which nonelected officials carry out laws and policies (PAGE 449)  
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depression   a period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment (PAGE 460)  
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favorite son   the candidate that receives the backing of his home state rather than of the national party (PAGE 447)  
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guerrilla tactics   referring to surprise attacks or raids rather than organized warfare where armies fight directly (PAGE 455)  
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landslide   an overwhelming victory (PAGE 448)  
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mudslinging   an attempt to ruin an opponent's reputation with insults (PAGE 448)  
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relocate   to force a person or group of people to move (PAGE 453)  
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secede   to leave or withdraw from a country (PAGE 450)  
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spoils system   handing out government jobs to supporters; replacing government employees with the winning candidate's supporters (PAGE 449)  
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veto   to reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law; the president refuses to sign the bill into law (PAGE 459)  
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Panic of 1837   time during the presidency of Martin Van Buren when land prices dropped quickly, investments lost their value, and banks failed. (PAGE 460)  
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nullify   action of a state government to make a federal law not apply in their state (PAGE 450)  
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The Nullification Crisis   difficult time when southern states refused to accept the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832. Things relaxed when a lower tariff was passed. (PAGE 451)  
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Trail of Tears   the forced movement of the Cherokee tribe west to settlements in Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many. (PAGE 454)  
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Whig Party   a new political party beginning in the presidential election of 1836 made up of National Republicans and other people opposed to the policies of Andrew Jackson (PAGES 460-461)  
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Democratic Party   a new political party in the presidential election of 1824 after a split in the Democratic-Republican Party. (PAGE 447)  
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