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14 Cards in this Set
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Born to an upper-class family. |
Well-born |
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Achieving wealth or influence through ones own effort rather than being born to a privileged family. |
Self-made |
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Employees of the government. |
Civil servants |
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The practice of giving government jobs to political bakers. |
Spoils system |
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A tax on imported goods. |
Tariff |
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To withdraw from the union. |
Secede |
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The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional. |
Judicial review |
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A group of people who have Jackson advice and met in the White House kitchen. |
Kitchen cabinet |
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A group of states' rights supporters in South Carolina boldly proclaimed their right to nullify. |
Nullification |
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This law allowed the president to make treaties in which Native Americans in the east traded their lands for new territory on the Great Plains. |
Indian removal act |
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More than 17000 Cherokee were dragged from their homes in Georgia and herded west by federal troops. |
Trail of tears |
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In it Marshall declared that an act passed by congress back in 1789 was unconstitutional. |
Marbury vs. Madison |
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Any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americans is a potentially hostile act against the U.S. |
Monroe doctrine |
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A treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. |
Adams-Onis treaty |
