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Question | Answer |
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Election of 1824 | election between adams, clay, jackson, crawford, house of reps picked winner no one had majority votes |
election of 1828 | rematch between jackson and adams; jackson became the 7th president |
electoral vote | number of votes that determines the president; must be the majority or one more then half |
corrupt bargain | agreement between john quincy adams and henry clay in which adams won the election of 1824; clay then became his secetery of state |
John quincy adams | monres secreary of state; 6th us president, winner of the election of 1824 |
henry clay | john quiency adams sectery of state; worked out compromise teriff in 1832; leader of the whig party |
andrew jackson | represented the common man and considered the "peoples president" |
worcester vs georgia | court case in which the cherokee won the right to stay on their land |
electoral college | group that choses the presient of the united states |
electors | members of the electoral college |
house of representatives | part of congress that impeaches teh president, passes revenue bills and chooses the president if no candidate gets a majority of the electoral votes |
john c. chalhoun | jackson's first vice-president but resigned; argued in favor of states' rights; from south carolinia |
popular vote | the number of people that vote for a presidental canidate; dosen't directly choose the president of the united states |
tariff | tax on imported goods; favored by the north opposed by the south |
nullification crisis | situation in jacksons presidency when south carolinia refused to follow the tariff of 1828; resolved by henry clay |
states' rights | the docterine that states have certin powers not listed in the constitution nullify or secede |
tariff of abominations | haghest tariff in us history; 1828 caused the nullification crisis when the south refused to pay it |
indian territory | located in modern-day oklahoma where reservations for natives for natives were estabilished |
cherokee | native tribe from tennessee, georgia, and south carolinia; had an alaphebet newspaper adn sued the government to stay on thier land |
sequoya | native american that developed a system of writing for the cherokee |
trail of tears | the forced removal of the cherokee, chicksaw adn chocktaw and to modern day oklahoma; nearly 1/4 of them died along the way |
jacksonian democrats | political party formed to support teh common man and andrew jackson's polocies |
jacksonian democracy | the idea of getting more of the common man involved in the government wether through involvement in the government or holding office |
whigs | polotical party that was formed to the oppisite polotics of andrew jackson and the democrats |
martin van buren | president andrew jacksons secound vice-president; elected 10th US president; organized the Demographic party |
second bank of the united states | granted twenty year charter in 1811; vetoed and "killed" by president jackson when it's funds were removed |
sufferage | right to vote |
caucus system | process by which more of the common man select candidates for presidency |
spoils system | the process of rewarding political supporters with gov't jobs |
panic of 1837 | economic depression that happened during martin van burens presidency |
william henry harrison | 9th US president; whig party; tried to portray himself as the common man |
indian removal act | law that required the cherokee, choctaw, chicksaw, creek and simnole to move to indian territory in 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 country |