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13 Cards in this Set
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Andrew Jackson
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Military hero and seventh president
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Democratic-Republican Party
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Party started by Jackson’s followers
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spoils system
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System in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends
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Indian Removal Act
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Law that forced Native Americans to move west
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Trail of Tears
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-Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory
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John C. Calhoun
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Vice-President and congressional leader from South Carolina
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Tariff of Abominations
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Henry Clay’s name for an 1828 tariff increase
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Daniel Webster
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A Senate leader from Massachusetts
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Bank of the United States
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National bank established by Congress first in 1791 and then in 1816
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Whig Party
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Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson
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Martin Van Buren
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Eighth president
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panic of 1837
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A series of financial failures that led to an economic depression
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William Henry Harrison
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Ninth president John Tyler Tenth president
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