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A Changing Nation -
Chapter 10 - AHON
Question | Answer |
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dumping | selling goods in another country at below market prices |
charter | legal document giving certain rights to a person or company |
American System | plan created by Henry Clay to improve the economy and infrastructure of the country |
contract | agreement between two or more parties that can be enforced by law |
capitalism | the economic system in which privately owned businesses compete in a free market |
interstate commerce | trade between two or more states |
cede | to give up |
Era of Good Feeling | new sense of national unity during Monroe's terms as president |
John C. Calhoun | spoke in Congress for the interests of the South |
Henry Clay | spoke in Congress for the West- the American System |
Daniel Webster | spoke in Congress for the Northeast |
Miguel Hidalgo | priest who organized Native Americans in Mexico to fight for independence |
Simon Bolivar | leader in the struggle of South Americans for independence from Spanish control |
James Monroe | President responsible for the Monroe Doctrine |
John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State under Monroe; wrote the Monroe Doctrine; arranged the Adams-Onis Treaty that gave U.S. Florida |
self-government | right of people to rule themselves independently |
Andrew Jackson | President; military leader; man of the people |
suffrage | the right to vote |
caucus | meeting of members of a political party |
nominating conventions | large meetings of party delegates to choose candidates for office |
spoils system | practice of rewarding government jobs to loyal supporters of the party that wins an election |
Sequoyah | Cherokee leader who created a written alphabet for the Cherokee language |
nullification | an action by a state that cancels a federal law to which the state objects |
Martin Van Buren | President during the Panic of 1837 |
William Henry Harrison | President for less than two months |