Jackson vocab Word Scramble

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Term	Definition
Repeal	to remove or take away a law
Election of 1824	election of Adams, Clay, Jackson, Crawford; house of representatives chose the winner ; no candidate received a majority of the votes.
Electoral vote	Number of votes that determines the president; must be a majority or one more than half.
corrupt bargin	agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in which Adams won the Election of 1824; Clay hen became his secretary of state.
john quincy adams	Monroe's Secretary of State; 6th US president, winner of the Election of 1824.
henery clay	John Quincy Adams secretary of state, worked out a compromise tariff in 1832; leader of the Whig party.
andrew jackson	represented the common man and considered the "People's President"
andrew jackson	7th president; from Tennessee; Winner of the election of 1828; served two terms.
gibbons vs odgen	Court case in which John Marshall ruled only the federal gov't has the power to regulate interstate commerce.
mcculuch vs maryland	court case in which John Marshall ruled a national bank was constitutional that a state could not tax the bank.
supremacy clause	Part of the Constitution that states the constitution is the supreme law of the land; makes the federal gov't more powerful than the states.
nessasary and proper	clause of the Constitution that states congress can do anything it needs to carry out its powers.
Worcester v. Georgia	court case in which the Cherokee won the right to stay on their land
interstate commerce	trade between the states
Implied Powers	powers not specifically given to Congress; part of the necessary and proper clause.
Federalism	Principle in which power is shared between a national government and state governments.
Reinforce	to strengthen or support with additional material
Electoral college	group that chooses the president of the United States.
Electors	a member of the Electoral college
Supreme Court	Highest court in the United States; 9 justices including a Chief Justice
House of Representatives	part of congress that impeaches the president, passes revenue bills and chooses the president if no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes.
John C. Calhoun	Jackson's first vice president but resigned; argued in favor of states rights; from south Carolina.
ensure	to make certain that something will happen.
popular vote	the number of people that vote for a president candidate; doesn't directly choose the president.
tariff	tax on imported goods; favored by the North; opposed by the south
nullification crisis	situation in Jackson's presidency when south Carolina refused to follow the tariff of 1828; resolved by Henry Clay.
States' rights	the doctrine that states have certain powers no listed in the Constitution
tariff of abominations	highest tariff in us history, 1828, caused nullification crisis.
Indian territory	located in modern day oklahoma, indian reservations were established
cherokee	native tribe from TN, GA, and SC; had and alphabet, newspaper and sued the government to stay on their land
seminole	native tribe from Florida that fought removal by fighting a war
john marshall	federlist and persided over mcculloch vs maryland and gibons vs odgen
james mcculloch	clerck of the maryland branch of the bank of the united states, got sued when he refused to pay marylands tax
sequoya	native american that developed a system of writing for the cherokee
trail of tears	the forced remmoval of the cherokee,chickasaw, and chocktaw to madern day oklahoma, nearly 1/4th of them died along the way
jacksonian- democracy	the idea of getting the more common man more involved in goverment, weather though voting or holding office
jacksonian democrats	political party formed to suporrt the common man and andrew jackson
whings	political party that was formed to oppose the policied of andrew jackson and the democrats
nmartin van buren	president jacksons seconf vice president , elected 10th presedent
nicholas biddle	president of the second bank of the united states, political enemy of andrew jackson
second bank of the united states	granted twenty year charter in 1811, voted and "killed" by president jackson when its fundswere removed
veto	the presedents power to cancel a bill passed by congress
dismantle	to take somthing apart
suffrage	the right to vote
caucus system	prosess by wich more of the common man select canadites for president
spoils system	the prosess of rewarding political supporterswith goverments job
panic of 1837	economic depression that happened during martin van burrens presidency
william henery harrison	9th us presedent whig party, tried to portry himseld as the common man
indian removal act	law that required the cherokee, chickasaw, choctaw, creek, and seminole to move to modern day oklahoma
nullify	to declare a law passed by congress to be null and void, to cancel out.
secede	to withdraw or leave a countyry
adams onis treaty	an agreement between us and spain that gave florida to the us

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