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Ch 12 vocab ms
ch 12 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Sixth president of the U.S | John Quincy Adams |
Military hero and seventh president | Andrew Jackson |
Political philosophy that puts its faith in the common people | Jacksonian democracy |
practice of giving government jobs to political supporter | spoils system |
A cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee Nation | Sequoya |
Law that required Native Americans to move west | Indian Removal Act |
Area that is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska to which Native Americans were moved | Indian Territory |
Route the Cherokees were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory | Trail of Tears |
Seminole who was an important leader in Second Seminole War | Osceola |
the tariff of 1828 | Tariff of Abominations |
Vice-president and congressional leader from South Carolina | John C. Calhoun |
the belief that states could ignore federal laws that they did not like | doctrine of nullification |
Debate between Senators Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne over nullification | Webster-Hayne debate |
A senate leader from Massachusetts | Daniel Webster |
Withdrawal from the Union | secession |
an increase in prices and a decrease in the value of money | inflation |
Eight President | Martin Van Buren |
Widespread concern about the state of the economy in 1837 | Panic of 1837 |
a severe economic slump | depression |
party formed by opponents of President Jackson | Whig Party |
ninth president | William Henry Harrison |
tenth president | John Tyler |