Ch. 10

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Jacksonianism

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the political philosophy of United States President Andrew Jackson and his supporters. Jackson's policies followed the era of Jeffersonian democracy which dominated the previous political era.

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Spoils System

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a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party—as opposed to a system of awarding offices on the basis of some measure of merit independent of political activity.

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Indian Removal

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a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river.

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Jackson and Indians

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Didn't like them

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Trail of Tears

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the forced relocation and movement of Native Americans, including many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, and Choctaw nations among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States.

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Nullification Crisis

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This ordinance declared, by the power of the State itself, that the federal Tariff of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within the sovereign boundaries of South Carolina.

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Bank War

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the name given to the controversy over the Second Bank of the United States and the attempts to destroy it by then-president Andrew Jackson.

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Whigs

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a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s[1], the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party.

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Specie Circular

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an executive order issued by U.S. President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and carried out by President Martin Van Buren. It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver.

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John Clahoun

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the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.

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Worcester vs. Georgia

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a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester, holding that the Georgia criminal statute, prohibiting non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state, was unconstitutional.

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Roger Taney

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was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Force Bill

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enacted by the 22nd U.S. Congress, consists of eight sections expanding Presidential power.

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Peggy Eaton

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the daughter of Rhoda Howell and William O'Neale,[1] the owner of Franklin House, a popular Washington, D.C. hotel. Peggy was noted for her beauty, wit and vivacity. Through her marriage to United States Senator John Henry Eaton, she had a central role in the Petticoat affair that disrupted the cabinet of Andrew Jackson.

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Tariff of 1828

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a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern United States

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Nick Biddle

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an American financier who served as the president of the Second Bank of the United States.

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Tocqueville

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a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes: 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).

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Panic of 1837

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a financial crisis in the United States built on a speculative fever.[1] The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank began to accept payment only in specie (gold and silver coinage).

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Tariff Abominations

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a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828 designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy and led to the Nullification Crisis.

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Positive Liberal State

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Democrats

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Tippacanoe and Tlyer Too

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a very popular and influential campaign song of the Whig Party's colorful Log Cabin Campaign in the 1840 United States presidential election.

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Kitchen Cabinet

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a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisers he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair and his break with Vice President John C. Calhoun in 1831.