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Ch 12 MR
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe's secretary of state, and was backed William Crawford of Georgia. had many plans for his presidency. He wanted to build roads and canals, aid education and science, and regulate the use of natural resources. | John Quincey Adams |
| A former military hero from Tennessee. His humble background, and his reputation as a war hero, helped make him president | Andrew Jackson |
| The idea of spreading political power to all the people, thereby ensuring majority rule. | Jacksonian democracy |
| The practice of winning candidates giving government jobs to political backers or supporters. | Spoils system |
| A brilliant Cherokee tried to find a way to “teach the Cherokees to talk on paper like the white man.” And he ws sucssesful. | Sequoya |
| This 1830 act called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west. | Indian Removal Act |
| In present-day Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. | Indian Territory |
| The tragic journey of the Cherokee people from their homeland to Indian Territory between 1838 and 1839; thousands of Cherokee died. | Trail of Tears |
| From the backwoods of South Carolina who had little formal education before age 18. Elected to the U.S. Congress at 28, Calhoun soon was one of its leaders. | John C. Calhoun |
| An 1828 law that raised the tariffs on raw materials and manufactured goods; it upset Southerners who felt that economic interests of the Northeast were determining national economic policy. | Tariff of Abominations |
| A right of a state to reject a federal law that it considers unconstitutional. | doctrine of nullification |
| An 1830 debate between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over the doctrine of nullification. | Webster-Hayne debate |
| A senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time. Declared that freedom and the Union go together. | Daniel Webster |
| withdrawal | secession |
| An increase in the price of goods and services and a decrease in the value of money. | Inflation |
| Elected president in 1836. Within a few months after he took office, a panic–a widespread fear about the state of the economy–spread throughout the country | Martin Van Buren |
| A financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed. | Panic of 1837 |
| A severe economic slump. | depression |
| A political party organized in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson. | Whig Party |
| From the whig party and ran for presdident against Jackson. | William Henry Harrison |
| Ran for vice-president with Harriosn. | John Tyler |
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