Ch.12 Vocab Word Scramble
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Monroe's secretary of state. | John Quincy Adams |
A farmer military hero from Tennessee. | Andrew Jackson |
The idea of spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule. | Jacksonian democracy |
The practice of giving government jobs to political backers. | spoils system |
He tried to find a way to "teach the Cherokees to talk on paper like the white man." | Sequoya |
This 1830 act called for the government to negotiates treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate West. | Indian Removal Act |
Present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act. | Indian Territory |
The tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian territory between 1838 and 1839. | Trail of Tears |
One of the most important leaders in the Second Seminole. | Osceola |
He was hailed as " one of the master-sprits who stamps their name upon the age in which they live." | John C. Calhoun |
An 1828 law that raised the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods. | Tariff of Abominatons |
A right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional. | doctrine of nullification |
One of the great debates in American history took place in the U.S. senate over the doctrine of nullfication. | 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 |
He was elected president in 1836. | Martin Van Buren |
A financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed. | Panic of 1837 |
serene economic slump. | depression |
It was named after a British party that opposed royal power. | Whig Party |
Whigs chose him of Ohio to run of president. | William Henry Harrison |
Whigs chose him of Virginia to run for vice-president. | John Tyler |
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