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Chapter 12 Vocab VK
Definition | Word |
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Monroe's secretary of state and 6th president | John Quincy Adams |
Former military hero from Tennessee and 7th president | Andrew Jackson |
Spreading political power to all the people and ensuring majority rule | Jacksonian Democracy |
Giving government jobs to political backers | Spoils System |
Invented a writing system of 86 characters for the Cherokees | Sequoya |
Called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west | Indian Removal Act |
The area where Native Americans were sent to due to the removal act | Indian Territory |
the harsh journey taken by Native Americans to the Indian Territory | Trail of Tears |
Important war leader who set up suprise attacks against the u.s army | Osceola |
Man from South Carolina who created the doctrine of Nullification for southern states | John C. Calhoun |
Name givin by the south to the tariffs issued by congress | Tariffs of Abonminations |
A plan by John Calhoun that gave states power to not follow laws they thought were unconstitutional | Doctrine of Nullification |
A big debate over the issue of states' rights | Webster-Hayne Debate |
Withdrawal from the Union | Secession |
Increase in prices and decrease in the value of money | Inflation |
Elected president in 1836 and was blamed for the panic of 1837 | Martin Van Buren |
The economic slump that America was in 1837 | Panic of 1837 |
Severe economic slump | Depression |
Opposed the concentration of power in the cheif executive | Whig Party |
Ohio man who the whigs chose for presidency | WIlliam Henry Harrison |
Virginia man who the whigs chose for vice- presidency | John Tyler |