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27 Cards in this Set
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nominating
conventions |
meetings to select a
political party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates |
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Andrew
Jackson |
seventh president of the
United States |
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Jacksonian
Democracy |
name for the expansion
of voting rights Hint: This event was named after Andrew Jackson, who was a popular war hero at the time. |
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Democratic
Party |
party formed by
supporters of Andrew Jackson |
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John C.
Calhoun |
vice president of the
United States under Andrew Jackson |
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spoils
system |
the practice of giving
government jobs to people who support certain views |
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Martin Van
Buren |
important member of
Andrew Jackson’s cabinet; he became the eighth president of the United States |
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kitchen
cabinet |
a group of Jackson’s
advisors who sometimes met in the White House kitchen |
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Tariff of
Abominations |
name southerners gave
to a tax with very high rates that Congress passed in 1828 |
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states’
rights doctrine |
doctrine that says state
power should be greater than federal power |
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nullification
crisis |
dispute over states’
rights Hint: John C. Calhoun said that states had the right to nullify (reject) any federal law they disagreed with. |
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Daniel
Webster |
Massachusetts senator
who opposed states’ rights to reject laws |
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criteria
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rules for defining
something |
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McCulloch v.
Maryland |
case in which the
Supreme Court ruled that the national bank was constitutional |
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Whig Party
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party that favored the
idea of a weak president and a strong Congress |
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Panic of
1837 |
a financial crisis in the
United States that led to a depression |
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William
Henry Harrison |
ninth president of the
United States who had once defeated Tecumseh’s Indian Confederation (group) |
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Indian
Removal Act |
act that forced
American Indians living east of the Mississippi River to move to lands in the West |
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Indian
Territory |
U.S. land in what is now
Oklahoma that was originally part of the Louisiana Purchase |
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Bureau of
Indian Affairs |
group that was in charge
of federal policy toward American Indians |
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contemporary
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existing at the same
time |
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Sequoya
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a Cherokee Indian who
created a writing system for Cherokee language |
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Worcester
v. Georgia |
case in which the
Supreme Court ruled that the laws of Georgia did not apply to the Cherokee nation |
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Trail of
Tears |
name for the Cherokee’s
800 mile march from Georgia to Indian Territory |
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Black
Hawk |
Indian chief who
decided to fight instead of leave Illinois |
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Osceola
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Seminole Indian leader
who told his followers to resist with force |
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wealth
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In the 1800's ___________ was concentrated in the hands of very few people.
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